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... passions with ourselves , " said Wise , who then proceeded to suggest that Washington's passions were anything but common . " His excitability was immense and his anger was awful . When aroused like passion he stormed like thunders amid ...
... passions with ourselves , " said Wise , who then proceeded to suggest that Washington's passions were anything but common . " His excitability was immense and his anger was awful . When aroused like passion he stormed like thunders amid ...
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... passion arising in the psyche as well as a tyrant in the body politic . That passion was the desire for immortality , 9Nathaniel Hawthorne , " Roger Malvin's Burial , " Works , II , 397-98 . which both fathers and sons shared , but ...
... passion arising in the psyche as well as a tyrant in the body politic . That passion was the desire for immortality , 9Nathaniel Hawthorne , " Roger Malvin's Burial , " Works , II , 397-98 . which both fathers and sons shared , but ...
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... passion for wealth was not the generating cause of our independence . ,, 41 The characteristic that most clearly distinguished the fathers from the sons was the latter generation's passion for material . gain , a passion made possible ...
... passion for wealth was not the generating cause of our independence . ,, 41 The characteristic that most clearly distinguished the fathers from the sons was the latter generation's passion for material . gain , a passion made possible ...
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