Martha WashingtonC. Scribner's, 1899 - 306 páginas |
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... never saw it again . He said that he never after walked through the streets of Williamsburg without thinking of it and hoping to find it ; but the golden horseshoe , like Captain Kidd's treas- ure , has thus far eluded the most diligent ...
... never saw it again . He said that he never after walked through the streets of Williamsburg without thinking of it and hoping to find it ; but the golden horseshoe , like Captain Kidd's treas- ure , has thus far eluded the most diligent ...
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... never look on her without exclaiming with the poet , ' She was nearest heaven of all on earth I knew ; And all but adoration was her due . " " As the Rev. Mr. Weems's Life of Washing- ton was largely an imaginative production , and as ...
... never look on her without exclaiming with the poet , ' She was nearest heaven of all on earth I knew ; And all but adoration was her due . " " As the Rev. Mr. Weems's Life of Washing- ton was largely an imaginative production , and as ...
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... never to have had reason to regret his consent to his son's marriage , and was among the first to bless and kiss the fair girl bride , when the wedding was solemnized , in 1749 , at St. Peter's Church in New Kent County , amid the ...
... never to have had reason to regret his consent to his son's marriage , and was among the first to bless and kiss the fair girl bride , when the wedding was solemnized , in 1749 , at St. Peter's Church in New Kent County , amid the ...
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... never expressed any doubt about this painting as a portrait of his grandmother . Is it at all likely that this grandson , living as he did from his A fanciful sketch has been drawn of the first interview 31 THE YOUNG VIRGINIA COLONEL.
... never expressed any doubt about this painting as a portrait of his grandmother . Is it at all likely that this grandson , living as he did from his A fanciful sketch has been drawn of the first interview 31 THE YOUNG VIRGINIA COLONEL.
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... never have discovered that the portrait which he believed was that of his grandmother was in fact that of General Washing- ton's sister ? Nor is it likely that Mr. G. W. P. Custis would have allowed this portrait to be reproduced as a ...
... never have discovered that the portrait which he believed was that of his grandmother was in fact that of General Washing- ton's sister ? Nor is it likely that Mr. G. W. P. Custis would have allowed this portrait to be reproduced as a ...
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