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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... heart feel sad . Some decayed fig - trees and tangled shrubs and vines , with here and there a pine and cedar sapling , tell , with silent eloquence , of neglect and ruin , and that decay has laid its blighting fingers upon every work ...
... heart feel sad . Some decayed fig - trees and tangled shrubs and vines , with here and there a pine and cedar sapling , tell , with silent eloquence , of neglect and ruin , and that decay has laid its blighting fingers upon every work ...
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... heart , for already a friend had written to Lawrence , " I am afraid Mrs. Washington will not keep up to her first resolution . that one word against his going has more weight than ten for it . " She could not expose her son to the ...
... heart , for already a friend had written to Lawrence , " I am afraid Mrs. Washington will not keep up to her first resolution . that one word against his going has more weight than ten for it . " She could not expose her son to the ...
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... heart was tender and susceptible , and that bride's beautiful sister tried its constancy to his first love very sorely . To his young friend " Robin , " he wrote : " My residence is at present at his lordship's , where I might , was my ...
... heart was tender and susceptible , and that bride's beautiful sister tried its constancy to his first love very sorely . To his young friend " Robin , " he wrote : " My residence is at present at his lordship's , where I might , was my ...
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... heart , and his fellow aide - de - camp in Braddock's family , Roger Morris , bore away the prize . Mary Phillipse did not become the mistress of Mount Vernon , but reigned , as beau- teous queen , in a more stately mansion on the bank ...
... heart , and his fellow aide - de - camp in Braddock's family , Roger Morris , bore away the prize . Mary Phillipse did not become the mistress of Mount Vernon , but reigned , as beau- teous queen , in a more stately mansion on the bank ...
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... heart and overlooked his foibles . Mr. Weems died at Beaufort , South Carolina , in May , 1825 , at an advanced age . After the Revolution , for reasons not clearly seen , Washing- ton attended Christ Church , at Alexandria ( of which ...
... heart and overlooked his foibles . Mr. Weems died at Beaufort , South Carolina , in May , 1825 , at an advanced age . After the Revolution , for reasons not clearly seen , Washing- ton attended Christ Church , at Alexandria ( of which ...
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Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial Benson John Lossing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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