The Life of George Washington: Commander-in-chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United StatesPorter & Coates, 1808 - 560 páginas |
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... feelings , as an officer and a man , have been such as to force me to say , that no person ever had a greater choice of difficulties to contend with than I have . " Hav- ing recommended sundry other measures , and mentioned several ...
... feelings , as an officer and a man , have been such as to force me to say , that no person ever had a greater choice of difficulties to contend with than I have . " Hav- ing recommended sundry other measures , and mentioned several ...
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... feelings on the subject . The following correspondences give a general view of the progress of their measures . Mr. Lawrens , President of Congress , in a private letter , communicated to the General information of an anonymous ...
... feelings on the subject . The following correspondences give a general view of the progress of their measures . Mr. Lawrens , President of Congress , in a private letter , communicated to the General information of an anonymous ...
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... feeling , on repre- senting to my mind the disagreeable situation which confidential letters , when exposed to public inspection , may place an unsuspecting correspon- dent in ; but , as a public officer , I conjure your Excellency to ...
... feeling , on repre- senting to my mind the disagreeable situation which confidential letters , when exposed to public inspection , may place an unsuspecting correspon- dent in ; but , as a public officer , I conjure your Excellency to ...
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... feelings of his patriotic and noble mind on this complaint , in a letter addressed to the President of Congress , and written in language which he used on no other occasion . " Full as I was in my representatious of the matters in the ...
... feelings of his patriotic and noble mind on this complaint , in a letter addressed to the President of Congress , and written in language which he used on no other occasion . " Full as I was in my representatious of the matters in the ...
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... feeling for the naked and dis- tressed soldiers , I feel superabundantly for them , and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to pre- vent . " All these efforts to displace the Commander in ...
... feeling for the naked and dis- tressed soldiers , I feel superabundantly for them , and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to pre- vent . " All these efforts to displace the Commander in ...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander-in-chief of the ..., Volumes 1-2 Aaron Bancroft Visualização integral - 1860 |
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