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Washington Irving. CHAPTER IX . WHICH RECORDS THE RISE AND RENOWN OF A MILITARY COMMANDER , SHOWING THAT A MAN , LIKE A BLADDER , MAY BE PUFFED UP TO GREATNESS BY MERE WIND ; TOGETHER WITH THE CATASTROPHE OF A VETERAN AND HIS QUEUE . HEN ...
Washington Irving. CHAPTER IX . WHICH RECORDS THE RISE AND RENOWN OF A MILITARY COMMANDER , SHOWING THAT A MAN , LIKE A BLADDER , MAY BE PUFFED UP TO GREATNESS BY MERE WIND ; TOGETHER WITH THE CATASTROPHE OF A VETERAN AND HIS QUEUE . HEN ...
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... commander - in - chief of the armies of the New Netherlands . Such is the inherent uncharitableness of human nature , that scarcely did the news become public of his deplorable discomfiture at Fort Casimir , than a thousand scurvy ...
... commander - in - chief of the armies of the New Netherlands . Such is the inherent uncharitableness of human nature , that scarcely did the news become public of his deplorable discomfiture at Fort Casimir , than a thousand scurvy ...
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... commander , demanding the reason of his anchoring in the harbor without obtaining previous per- mission so to do . This letter was couched in the most dignified and courteous terms , though I have it from un- doubted authority that his ...
... commander , demanding the reason of his anchoring in the harbor without obtaining previous per- mission so to do . This letter was couched in the most dignified and courteous terms , though I have it from un- doubted authority that his ...
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