 | 1852 - 746 pages
...the very time of the Congress of Aix la Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George "Washington, the • son of a widow. Born by the side...Westmoreland farmer, almost from infancy, his lot has been the lot of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to its shades; no college crowned him with... | |
 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...the very time of the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...from infancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan, fio academy had welcomed him to its shades, no collide crowned him with its honors: to read, to write,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1853 - 520 pages
...the very time of the congress of Aix la Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...crowned him with its honors : to read, to write, to cipher — these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen years of age, in quest of an... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - Cuba - 1853 - 670 pages
...the very time of the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...crowned him with its honors ; to read, to write, to cipher—these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen years of age, in quest of an... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 488 pages
...the very time of the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...him to its shades ; no college crowned him with its honours ; to read, to write, to cipher — these had been bis degrees in knowledge. And now at sixteen... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...very time of the Congress of Aix la Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful G-EOBGE WASHINGTON, the son of a widow. Born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer's cottage, almost from infancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan : no academy had welcomed... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 384 pages
...words of the historian of the United States,) " the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...him to its shades, no college crowned him with its honours; to read, to write, to cipher—these bad been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 376 pages
...words of the historian of the United States,) " the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer, almost from iyffancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to its shades, no college... | |
 | Eli Bowen - History - 1855 - 444 pages
...the very time of the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia !heltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmore'and farmer, almost from infancy bis lot had been the lot of an orphan. No academy had welcomed... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...the very time of the congress of Aix la Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...lot had been the lot of an orphan. No academy had weleomed him to its shades, no college crowned him with its honours: to read, to write, to cipher —... | |
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Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer, almost from infancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to its shades, no college crowned him with its honors; to... 
