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... hundreds of people asking for their autographs , and after he had made a large collection , he carefully copied them all into an autograph album , in his own neat handwriting - then he burned the original signatures ! But there was more ...
... hundreds of people asking for their autographs , and after he had made a large collection , he carefully copied them all into an autograph album , in his own neat handwriting - then he burned the original signatures ! But there was more ...
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... hundred years before Columbus discovered America , went about England on horseback , preaching that all men are free and equal . It was he who originated this quaint couplet , which he often took for his text : " When Adam delved and ...
... hundred years before Columbus discovered America , went about England on horseback , preaching that all men are free and equal . It was he who originated this quaint couplet , which he often took for his text : " When Adam delved and ...
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... hundred years , he would have beheld a sight to gladden his liberty - lov- ing eyes . For , on the then unknown Western Continent , in 1781 , at Yorktown , he would have seen George Washington , his grandson of about the twentieth ...
... hundred years , he would have beheld a sight to gladden his liberty - lov- ing eyes . For , on the then unknown Western Continent , in 1781 , at Yorktown , he would have seen George Washington , his grandson of about the twentieth ...
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... Athelunold Was- sengatone , in 963 A. D. Over a hundred years after this , William the Conqueror , rewarding his valiant knights for helping him vanquish the Saxons , gave an estate in England to Will- 21 George Washington.
... Athelunold Was- sengatone , in 963 A. D. Over a hundred years after this , William the Conqueror , rewarding his valiant knights for helping him vanquish the Saxons , gave an estate in England to Will- 21 George Washington.
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... hundred and sixty - five and one- fourth days in a year . Now every schoolboy knows that it takes the earth about eleven min- utes less than three hundred and sixty - five and one - fourth days to revolve around the sun , which makes ...
... hundred and sixty - five and one- fourth days in a year . Now every schoolboy knows that it takes the earth about eleven min- utes less than three hundred and sixty - five and one - fourth days to revolve around the sun , which makes ...
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Page 211 - You may believe me, my dear Patsy, when I assure you, in the most solemn manner, that, so far from seeking this appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity...
Page 140 - The wine, as they dosed themselves pretty plentifully with it, soon banished the restraint which at first appeared in their conversation, and gave a license to their tongues to reveal their sentiments more freely. They told me, that it was their absolute design to take possession of the Ohio, and by G they would do it...
Page 40 - I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.' — 'Run to my arms, you dearest boy,' cried his father in transports, 'run to my arms; glad am I, George, that you killed my tree; for you have paid me for it a thousand fold. Such an act of heroism in my son is more worth than a thousand trees, though blossomed with silver, and their fruits of purest gold.
Page 77 - Virginia ship (which it is very difficult to do), a planter that has three or four hundred acres of land and three or four slaves, if he be industrious, may live more comfortably, and leave his family in better bread, than such a master of a ship can.
Page 174 - These savages may indeed be a formidable enemy to your raw American militia, but upon the king's regular and disciplined troops, sir, it is impossible they should make any impression.
Page 182 - Honored Madam: If it is in my power to avoid going to the Ohio again, I shall; but if the command is pressed upon me by the general voice of the country, and offered upon such terms as cannot be objected against, it would reflect dishonor on me to refuse it...
Page 204 - Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms.
Page 77 - I understand that you are advised and have some thoughts of putting your son George to sea. I think he had better be put apprentice to a tinker, for a common sailor before the mast has by no means the common liberty of the subject; for they will press him from a ship where he has fifty shillings a month and make him take twenty-three, and cut and slash and use him like a negro, or rather like a dog.
Page 210 - MY DEAREST, I am now set down to write to you on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern, and this concern is greatly aggravated and increased, when I reflect upon the uneasiness I know it will give you. It has been determined in Congress, that the whole army raised for the defence of the American cause shall be put under my care, and that it is necessary for me to proceed immediately to Boston to take upon me the command of it. You may believe me, my dear Patsy, when I assure you, in...
Page 205 - And has not General Gage's conduct since his arrival, in stopping the address of his council and publishing a proclamation more becoming a Turkish bashaw than an English governor, declaring it treason to associate in any manner by which the commerce of Great Britain is to be affected, — has not this exhibited an unexampled testimony of the most despotic system of tyranny that ever was practised in a free government?