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Our firft object was to fecure the bridge over the Hackenfack , which laid up the river between the enemy and us , about fix miles from us and three from them . Gencral Washington arrived in about three quarters of an hour , and marched ...
Our firft object was to fecure the bridge over the Hackenfack , which laid up the river between the enemy and us , about fix miles from us and three from them . Gencral Washington arrived in about three quarters of an hour , and marched ...
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Say not that this is revenge , call it rather the foft refentment of a fuffering people , who , having no object in view but the GOOD of ALL , have ftaked their OWN ALL upon a feemingly doubtful event . Yet it is folly to argue against ...
Say not that this is revenge , call it rather the foft refentment of a fuffering people , who , having no object in view but the GOOD of ALL , have ftaked their OWN ALL upon a feemingly doubtful event . Yet it is folly to argue against ...
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If there be an object to hurry any of you , in hot haste , to a step which you would never take deliberately , that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it .
If there be an object to hurry any of you , in hot haste , to a step which you would never take deliberately , that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it .
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| Title | 12 Americans Speak |
| Editor | John Edwin Pomfret |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Huntington Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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