Character Portraits of Washington as Delineated by Historians, Orators and Divines: Selected and Arranged in Chronological Order with Biographical Notes and ReferencesR. M. Lindsay, 1887 - 351 Seiten |
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... virtues ! Who is the man that would be jealous of the homage I pay him ? me with flattery ? Who is the man that would tax We are no longer in those barbarous ages in which men offered incense to tyrants , in which they dared to give the ...
... virtues ! Who is the man that would be jealous of the homage I pay him ? me with flattery ? Who is the man that would tax We are no longer in those barbarous ages in which men offered incense to tyrants , in which they dared to give the ...
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... virtues , by clothing themselves in more lively , but more changeable and doubtful colours , may be mistaken for faults ... virtue capable of restraining the injustice of mankind ; or are glory and happiness too recently established in ...
... virtues , by clothing themselves in more lively , but more changeable and doubtful colours , may be mistaken for faults ... virtue capable of restraining the injustice of mankind ; or are glory and happiness too recently established in ...
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... virtue ; during the late troubles , his fortune was employed in succouring merit , rewarding bravery , promoting discipline in the soldiery , and subordination to the new established government , in the citizens . At a time when the ...
... virtue ; during the late troubles , his fortune was employed in succouring merit , rewarding bravery , promoting discipline in the soldiery , and subordination to the new established government , in the citizens . At a time when the ...
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... virtue . Born with abilities to unite the jar- ring interests of a number of states , and be the leader of a brave and injured people , nature has not been less favorable to him in corporeal than in mental endowments . His person is ...
... virtue . Born with abilities to unite the jar- ring interests of a number of states , and be the leader of a brave and injured people , nature has not been less favorable to him in corporeal than in mental endowments . His person is ...
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... virtues of a good citizen , an experienced general , an upright senator , and a wise politician ; we behold him rising superior to every mean consid- eration of self - love , hazarding his fortunes in the cause of freedom , chearfully ...
... virtues of a good citizen , an experienced general , an upright senator , and a wise politician ; we behold him rising superior to every mean consid- eration of self - love , hazarding his fortunes in the cause of freedom , chearfully ...
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