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... a boy the gravity of his character mental and physical those about him , and vigor commended him to and his responsibility and military command were put in his hands at an age when most young men 2 FROM AMERICAN HISTORY HERO TALES.
... a boy the gravity of his character mental and physical those about him , and vigor commended him to and his responsibility and military command were put in his hands at an age when most young men 2 FROM AMERICAN HISTORY HERO TALES.
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt. in his hands at an age when most young men are just leaving college . As the times grew threatening on the frontier , he was sent on a perilous mission to the Indians , in which , after passing ...
Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt. in his hands at an age when most young men are just leaving college . As the times grew threatening on the frontier , he was sent on a perilous mission to the Indians , in which , after passing ...
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... hands , were eager to have him take control of the disordered Country as Cromwell had done in England a little more than a century before . With the army at his back , and supported by the great forces which , in every community ...
... hands , were eager to have him take control of the disordered Country as Cromwell had done in England a little more than a century before . With the army at his back , and supported by the great forces which , in every community ...
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... hands of the British , had fettered our march to the west ; and we had proved our power to maintain order at home , to repress insurrection , to collect the national taxes , and to enforce the laws made by Congress . Thus Washington had ...
... hands of the British , had fettered our march to the west ; and we had proved our power to maintain order at home , to repress insurrection , to collect the national taxes , and to enforce the laws made by Congress . Thus Washington had ...
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... hand , but he hardly ever talked of himself . Yet there can be no greater error than to suppose Washington cold and unfeeling , because of his silence and reserve . He was by nature a man of strong desires and stormy pas- sions . Now ...
... hand , but he hardly ever talked of himself . Yet there can be no greater error than to suppose Washington cold and unfeeling , because of his silence and reserve . He was by nature a man of strong desires and stormy pas- sions . Now ...
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