Mount Vernon and Its Associations: Historical, Biographical, and PictorialW.A. Townsend, 1859 - 376 Seiten This book offers a more personal glimpse at the life of George Washington, as portrayed through the narrative of his home at Mount Vernon. Important house pieces, locations, and so forth are also discussed in their historical importance, and also meaning in the life of Washington. |
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... early childhood , was associated with Mount Vernon . The following words , explanatory of the origin of the book , appear proper . Early in October , 1858 , I visited Mount Vernon , and en- joyed the hospitalities of the mansion for two ...
... early childhood , was associated with Mount Vernon . The following words , explanatory of the origin of the book , appear proper . Early in October , 1858 , I visited Mount Vernon , and en- joyed the hospitalities of the mansion for two ...
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... early life . Upon each of the last two is engraved his mono- gram , one of them being a fac - simile of WASHINGTON'S SEAL . his written initials . One of these was lost by Washington himself on the bloody field of Monongahela , where ...
... early life . Upon each of the last two is engraved his mono- gram , one of them being a fac - simile of WASHINGTON'S SEAL . his written initials . One of these was lost by Washington himself on the bloody field of Monongahela , where ...
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... earliest childhood , was Richard Henry Lee , afterward the eminent statesman and patriot . They were very nearly of the same age , Lee being one month the oldest . I have before me a copy of a letter written by each when they were nine ...
... earliest childhood , was Richard Henry Lee , afterward the eminent statesman and patriot . They were very nearly of the same age , Lee being one month the oldest . I have before me a copy of a letter written by each when they were nine ...
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... early life , was now in Virginia , and living at Belvoir , but secretly resolving to go over the Blue Mountains of the West , and make his home in the deep wilderness , away from the haunts of men . Thither he went a few years later ...
... early life , was now in Virginia , and living at Belvoir , but secretly resolving to go over the Blue Mountains of the West , and make his home in the deep wilderness , away from the haunts of men . Thither he went a few years later ...
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... early age of thirty - four years , leaving a wife and infant child . And now George Washington , a noble youth of twenty , his fine manly face a little scarred by the smallpox , that seized him while he was in Barbadoes , was at Mount ...
... early age of thirty - four years , leaving a wife and infant child . And now George Washington , a noble youth of twenty , his fine manly face a little scarred by the smallpox , that seized him while he was in Barbadoes , was at Mount ...
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Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial Benson John Lossing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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