The Illustrated Life of Washington: With Vivid Pen Paintings of Battles and Incidents of the Revolution. Embracing Much New and Valuable Information Derived from the Researches of Mr. Lossing and Papers of Rufus PutnamG. & F. Bill, 1859 - 491 Seiten |
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... heart tremble , and it was with prayers and earnest teachings , that she sought to place that nature under the control of reason and the law of right . Around that bold and passionate heart she cast ligature after ligature , woven from ...
... heart tremble , and it was with prayers and earnest teachings , that she sought to place that nature under the control of reason and the law of right . Around that bold and passionate heart she cast ligature after ligature , woven from ...
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... heart that little spark of celestial fire called conscience . " It is certainly extraordinary to see a mere child thus reduce his life , as it were , to system , and shape all his conduct to rules of morality . The foundation of a well ...
... heart that little spark of celestial fire called conscience . " It is certainly extraordinary to see a mere child thus reduce his life , as it were , to system , and shape all his conduct to rules of morality . The foundation of a well ...
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... heart are proof against the fiercest storms and severest temptations of life . He had a decided taste for mathematics , which soon led him from the simple rules of arithmetic , into geometry , trigonometry and surveying ; and he spent ...
... heart are proof against the fiercest storms and severest temptations of life . He had a decided taste for mathematics , which soon led him from the simple rules of arithmetic , into geometry , trigonometry and surveying ; and he spent ...
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... heart so grievously that the project was finally abandoned . Once locked up in the British navy , and he never could have become the leader of the revolutionary army . After George left school he went to his brother Law- rence , living ...
... heart so grievously that the project was finally abandoned . Once locked up in the British navy , and he never could have become the leader of the revolutionary army . After George left school he went to his brother Law- rence , living ...
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... heart naturally bold impervious to fear , and an iron consti- tution doubly insensible to fatigue . A better training to impart self - reliance and coolness in the hour of peril , and indomitable energy , could not have been furnished ...
... heart naturally bold impervious to fear , and an iron consti- tution doubly insensible to fatigue . A better training to impart self - reliance and coolness in the hour of peril , and indomitable energy , could not have been furnished ...
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