The Life of George Washington: Commander-in-chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United StatesHenry T. Coates, 1882 - 489 Seiten |
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... circumstances , you are in a man- ner compelled , right or wrong , to make circumstances . yield to a secondary consideration . Since the first of December , I have been devising every means in my power to secure these encampments ; and ...
... circumstances , you are in a man- ner compelled , right or wrong , to make circumstances . yield to a secondary consideration . Since the first of December , I have been devising every means in my power to secure these encampments ; and ...
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... circumstances , do not form an assemblage of suffer- ings , which recommend him to the mediation of humanity ? Allow me , sir , on this occasion , to be its organ ; and to entreat that he may be permitted to come to this country on such ...
... circumstances , do not form an assemblage of suffer- ings , which recommend him to the mediation of humanity ? Allow me , sir , on this occasion , to be its organ ; and to entreat that he may be permitted to come to this country on such ...
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... circumstances induce me to exchange once more the smooth paths of retirement for the thorny ways of public life , at a period too when repose is more congenial to nature , that it would be produc- tive of sensations which can be more ...
... circumstances induce me to exchange once more the smooth paths of retirement for the thorny ways of public life , at a period too when repose is more congenial to nature , that it would be produc- tive of sensations which can be more ...
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