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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... especially as it is next to an impossibility ( since Governor Sharpe * has been there to plead Captain Dagworthy's cause ) to make the general * Of Maryland . acquainted by writing with the nature of the dispute . 96 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... especially as it is next to an impossibility ( since Governor Sharpe * has been there to plead Captain Dagworthy's cause ) to make the general * Of Maryland . acquainted by writing with the nature of the dispute . 96 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
Page 100
... cause me to lament the hour that gave me a commission , and would induce me , at any other time than this of imminent danger , to resign , without one hesitating moment , a command from which I never expect to reap either honour or ...
... cause me to lament the hour that gave me a commission , and would induce me , at any other time than this of imminent danger , to resign , without one hesitating moment , a command from which I never expect to reap either honour or ...
Page 105
... cause a steady firmness and vigor to actuate in every breast , despising the greatest dangers and thinking light of toils and hardships , while led on by the man we know and love . " But if we must be so unhappy as to part , if the ...
... cause a steady firmness and vigor to actuate in every breast , despising the greatest dangers and thinking light of toils and hardships , while led on by the man we know and love . " But if we must be so unhappy as to part , if the ...
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... cause . This convention adopted a series of fourteen resolutions , in which they denounced the injus- tice and ruinous consequences of their being taxed without being represented a privilege , which , from their distance , it was im ...
... cause . This convention adopted a series of fourteen resolutions , in which they denounced the injus- tice and ruinous consequences of their being taxed without being represented a privilege , which , from their distance , it was im ...
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... cause was most strenu- ously advocated by Mr. Pitt , who , after a long illness , reappeared on the scene . On the proposal to tax America , so great he said had been his agitation for the consequences , that if he could have been ...
... cause was most strenu- ously advocated by Mr. Pitt , who , after a long illness , reappeared on the scene . On the proposal to tax America , so great he said had been his agitation for the consequences , that if he could have been ...
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