Library of Universal Literature: In Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, Volume 15P. F. Collier, 1900 |
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... prepare Valedictory -Wayne appointed to succeed St. Clair - Congress adjourns— Washington at Mount Vernon - Suggests Topics for his Fare- well Address - Madison's Draft - Jefferson urges his continu- ance · CHAPTER XVI . Jefferson's ...
... prepare Valedictory -Wayne appointed to succeed St. Clair - Congress adjourns— Washington at Mount Vernon - Suggests Topics for his Fare- well Address - Madison's Draft - Jefferson urges his continu- ance · CHAPTER XVI . Jefferson's ...
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... preparing to return to that domestic retirement which , it is well known , I left with the greatest reluctance ; a retirement for which I have never ceased to sigh , through a long and painful absence , and in which ( remote from the ...
... preparing to return to that domestic retirement which , it is well known , I left with the greatest reluctance ; a retirement for which I have never ceased to sigh , through a long and painful absence , and in which ( remote from the ...
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... prepared to take possession of them . In consequence of this notice , General George Clinton , at that time Governor of New York , had summoned the members of the State council to convene at Eastchester on the 21st of November , for the ...
... prepared to take possession of them . In consequence of this notice , General George Clinton , at that time Governor of New York , had summoned the members of the State council to convene at Eastchester on the 21st of November , for the ...
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... prepared to depart for Annapolis , where Congress was assembling , with the intention of asking leave to resign his command . barge was in waiting about noon on the 4th of December at Whitehall ferry to convey him across the Hudson to ...
... prepared to depart for Annapolis , where Congress was assembling , with the intention of asking leave to resign his command . barge was in waiting about noon on the 4th of December at Whitehall ferry to convey him across the Hudson to ...
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... a fortnight with him , a loved and cherished guest , at the end of which he de- parted for a time , to be present at the ceremony of a treaty with the Indians . Washington now prepared for a tour to the west of 62 Works of Washington ...
... a fortnight with him , a loved and cherished guest , at the end of which he de- parted for a time , to be present at the ceremony of a treaty with the Indians . Washington now prepared for a tour to the west of 62 Works of Washington ...
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