The Ladies of the White HouseH. H. Bancroft & Company, 1870 - 658 من الصفحات |
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... young republic , bore the honors as a President's wife , is described " as being rather below the middle size , but extremely well- shaped , with an agreeable countenance , dark hazel eyes and hair , and those frank , engaging manners ...
... young republic , bore the honors as a President's wife , is described " as being rather below the middle size , but extremely well- shaped , with an agreeable countenance , dark hazel eyes and hair , and those frank , engaging manners ...
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... young to Colonel Custis , she had lived in comparative seclusion on his farm , devoting her time to her husband and children . Endeared to each other by the warmest affection , her life spent in dispensing that hospitality which was ...
... young to Colonel Custis , she had lived in comparative seclusion on his farm , devoting her time to her husband and children . Endeared to each other by the warmest affection , her life spent in dispensing that hospitality which was ...
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... young girl . That she was educated after the ex- igency of her time , at home , is likewise a truth gath- ered from the echoes of the past generation . Vir ginia , in those early days - for she was born in May , 1732 - possessed no ...
... young girl . That she was educated after the ex- igency of her time , at home , is likewise a truth gath- ered from the echoes of the past generation . Vir ginia , in those early days - for she was born in May , 1732 - possessed no ...
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... young heart asked no other boon . The deaths of husband and child were the mysteries of the inscrutable will of Providence , whereby she was to accomplish her destiny . The war with the French and Indians in the West , and the defeat ...
... young heart asked no other boon . The deaths of husband and child were the mysteries of the inscrutable will of Providence , whereby she was to accomplish her destiny . The war with the French and Indians in the West , and the defeat ...
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... young Republic , Mrs. Washington welcomed to Mount Vernon her hero - husband , who naturally hoped that he might " move gently down the stream of life until he slept with his fathers . " But a proud , fond nation called him again from ...
... young Republic , Mrs. Washington welcomed to Mount Vernon her hero - husband , who naturally hoped that he might " move gently down the stream of life until he slept with his fathers . " But a proud , fond nation called him again from ...
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