Adventures and Achievements of Americans: A Series of Narratives Illustrating Their Heroism, Self-reliance, Genius and Enterprise |
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... friends unchanging , and sincere to Heaven . How short his course ! the prize how early won ! While weeping Friendship mourns her favorite son . " THE period of the American Revolution was the heroic era in the history of our country ...
... friends unchanging , and sincere to Heaven . How short his course ! the prize how early won ! While weeping Friendship mourns her favorite son . " THE period of the American Revolution was the heroic era in the history of our country ...
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... friend about his mother . The tie that held him to home was now broken , and he left it to go out into the great ... friends eager to assist him at every step . West , like most men of any imagination who visit Rome , was always fond ...
... friend about his mother . The tie that held him to home was now broken , and he left it to go out into the great ... friends eager to assist him at every step . West , like most men of any imagination who visit Rome , was always fond ...
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... friends and present patrons were in- volved in the bloody controversy . He was too much in the palace and alone with ... friendship for him as a man . Professor Morse relates an interesting anecdote about West and George III . The ...
... friends and present patrons were in- volved in the bloody controversy . He was too much in the palace and alone with ... friendship for him as a man . Professor Morse relates an interesting anecdote about West and George III . The ...
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... friend in the place or a pound in his pocket . Waterhouse , a school companion of his , whom he expected to meet ... friends had to hunt for him occasionally in the sponging - house . He had been in London nearly two years before he ...
... friend in the place or a pound in his pocket . Waterhouse , a school companion of his , whom he expected to meet ... friends had to hunt for him occasionally in the sponging - house . He had been in London nearly two years before he ...
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... friends , had driven him into suicide ! Stuart generally produced a likeness on the pannel or canvas , before painting in the eyes , his theory being , that on the nose , more than any other feature , likeness depended . On one occasion ...
... friends , had driven him into suicide ! Stuart generally produced a likeness on the pannel or canvas , before painting in the eyes , his theory being , that on the nose , more than any other feature , likeness depended . On one occasion ...
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