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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... retired from young women , I might in some measure alleviate my sorrows , by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in the grave of oblivion . " Thus wrote George Wash- ington before he was sixteen years of age . He was soon taken ...
... retired from young women , I might in some measure alleviate my sorrows , by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in the grave of oblivion . " Thus wrote George Wash- ington before he was sixteen years of age . He was soon taken ...
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... retired to the quiet of private life at Mount Vernon , with a determination to spend his life there in the pursuits of agricul- ture - pursuits which he always passionately loved , and longed for most earnestly when away from them ...
... retired to the quiet of private life at Mount Vernon , with a determination to spend his life there in the pursuits of agricul- ture - pursuits which he always passionately loved , and longed for most earnestly when away from them ...
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... retire- ment than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world . " He was then seven - and - twenty years of age , and over six feet two inches in height , and admirably proportioned . His hair was a rich dark - brown ; his eyes ...
... retire- ment than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world . " He was then seven - and - twenty years of age , and over six feet two inches in height , and admirably proportioned . His hair was a rich dark - brown ; his eyes ...
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... retired for the night at about nine o'clock . So carefully did Washington manage his farms , that they became very productive . His chief crops were wheat and tobacco , and these were very large - so large that vessels that came up the ...
... retired for the night at about nine o'clock . So carefully did Washington manage his farms , that they became very productive . His chief crops were wheat and tobacco , and these were very large - so large that vessels that came up the ...
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... retired painter who resided a few miles from Annapolis , " Show me , Mr. Hesselins , how you mix such beautiful tints for your canvas , and I will give you the best saddle that I can make , " a new world was opening to his enraptured ...
... retired painter who resided a few miles from Annapolis , " Show me , Mr. Hesselins , how you mix such beautiful tints for your canvas , and I will give you the best saddle that I can make , " a new world was opening to his enraptured ...
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Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial Benson John Lossing Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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