Library of Universal Literature: In Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, Volume 15P. F. Collier, 1900 |
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... Parties under Hamilton and Jefferson - Their different Views - Dissatisfaction of Congress at the Report of Harmer's Expedition - Washington's Address to the Seneca Chiefs - His Desire to civilize the Savages - Kentucky and Ver- mont ...
... Parties under Hamilton and Jefferson - Their different Views - Dissatisfaction of Congress at the Report of Harmer's Expedition - Washington's Address to the Seneca Chiefs - His Desire to civilize the Savages - Kentucky and Ver- mont ...
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... parties for their rustic homes , and the danger and inconvenience were avoided of disbanding large masses , at a time , of unpaid soldiery . Now and then were to be seen three or four in a group , bound probably to the same neighborhood ...
... parties for their rustic homes , and the danger and inconvenience were avoided of disbanding large masses , at a time , of unpaid soldiery . Now and then were to be seen three or four in a group , bound probably to the same neighborhood ...
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... party should be sent to demand him , and that if the ladies refused to give him up he should be brought by force . Washington humored the joke and offered to head the party . He led it with great formality to the door of the * Greene to ...
... party should be sent to demand him , and that if the ladies refused to give him up he should be brought by force . Washington humored the joke and offered to head the party . He led it with great formality to the door of the * Greene to ...
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... party clamor and unjust censure which must be expected from some whose personal enmity might be oc- casioned by their hostility to the government . I am con- scious that I fear alone to give any real occasion for obloquy , and that I do ...
... party clamor and unjust censure which must be expected from some whose personal enmity might be oc- casioned by their hostility to the government . I am con- scious that I fear alone to give any real occasion for obloquy , and that I do ...
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... parties of ladies and gentlemen who sang congratulatory odes as Washington's barge approached . The ships at anchor in the harbor , dressed in colors , fired salutes as it passed . One alone , the " Galveston , " a Span- ish man - of ...
... parties of ladies and gentlemen who sang congratulatory odes as Washington's barge approached . The ships at anchor in the harbor , dressed in colors , fired salutes as it passed . One alone , the " Galveston , " a Span- ish man - of ...
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