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[Transcriber's note: This production is based on
https://archive.org/details/essayoncharacte00guiz/page/1]


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   Essay On The Character And Influence Of Washington

    In The Revolution Of The United States Of America.

                 By M. Guizot.



           Translated From The French.


                 Third Edition.



                    New York

           Published By James Miller,

       (Successor To C. S. Francis & Co.,)

                  522 Broadway.

                     1868.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty, by James Munroe & Co., in the Clerk's
office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.


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               Translator's Preface.


The following Essay is a translation of the Introduction, by M.
Guizot, to a French version of Sparks's Life of Washington, and
of selected portions of Washington's Writings, which has recently
appeared in Pari