Pictorial Life of George Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of Washington |
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... successful assertion of her independence and the complete organization of her free institutions . No man was ever charged with a higher mission . None ever performed his mission with more complete success . Every step in the onward ...
... successful assertion of her independence and the complete organization of her free institutions . No man was ever charged with a higher mission . None ever performed his mission with more complete success . Every step in the onward ...
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... successful is evident , not less in the conduct of George's youth , than in the frankness of his political course , when , as President of the United States , he insisted on sincerity in all the diplomatic declarations of his public ...
... successful is evident , not less in the conduct of George's youth , than in the frankness of his political course , when , as President of the United States , he insisted on sincerity in all the diplomatic declarations of his public ...
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... success , stand out in bolder characters . Of the harmony of sentiment existing in this respect between her and Mr. Washington , and of the high estimate in which she held the virtue of truth , let the following incident , resting on ...
... success , stand out in bolder characters . Of the harmony of sentiment existing in this respect between her and Mr. Washington , and of the high estimate in which she held the virtue of truth , let the following incident , resting on ...
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... successes ; and whether those counsels and purposes which have been taken up after an humble invocation of the Divine direction , have not been always most successful in the end . " Consider what it is thou pridest thyself in , and ...
... successes ; and whether those counsels and purposes which have been taken up after an humble invocation of the Divine direction , have not been always most successful in the end . " Consider what it is thou pridest thyself in , and ...
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... success in enterprises and undertakings , public and private . Christian and liberal education you have had ; counsel and advice of faithful and judicious friends ; good laws in the place and country where you live ; the written word of ...
... success in enterprises and undertakings , public and private . Christian and liberal education you have had ; counsel and advice of faithful and judicious friends ; good laws in the place and country where you live ; the written word of ...
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