Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United StatesJ. Stockdale, 1808 - 560 Seiten |
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... approach by water carriage , within five miles of their present encampment ; and then pass them by a different route and starve them into a surrender , or fight them with a great superiority of 8 [ 1754 . LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... approach by water carriage , within five miles of their present encampment ; and then pass them by a different route and starve them into a surrender , or fight them with a great superiority of 8 [ 1754 . LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
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... present season , would be to gain the height of land , there erect fortifications , and wait the return of spring . This delay must be attended with ruinous consequences to the colonies , which had exerted themselves be- yond their ...
... present season , would be to gain the height of land , there erect fortifications , and wait the return of spring . This delay must be attended with ruinous consequences to the colonies , which had exerted themselves be- yond their ...
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... present position , or of taking one in their rear more com- pact . The council with unanimity advised to re- main in their present lines . The reasons in sup- port of this opinion were , the immediate effect which a retrograde movement ...
... present position , or of taking one in their rear more com- pact . The council with unanimity advised to re- main in their present lines . The reasons in sup- port of this opinion were , the immediate effect which a retrograde movement ...
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... present , at least , the attempt ought not to be made . " To continue the blockade , and to strengthen their lines , was all that remained in their power . Although the Commander in Chief acquiesced in the decision of the council , yet ...
... present , at least , the attempt ought not to be made . " To continue the blockade , and to strengthen their lines , was all that remained in their power . Although the Commander in Chief acquiesced in the decision of the council , yet ...
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... present engagements , should in writing make known their intention to their respective colonels ; which was to be communicated to the general officers commanding brigades . " Those brave men , and true patriots , who resolved to 54 ...
... present engagements , should in writing make known their intention to their respective colonels ; which was to be communicated to the general officers commanding brigades . " Those brave men , and true patriots , who resolved to 54 ...
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Seite 460 - But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole.
Seite 465 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled, men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Seite 454 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those, out of whom...
Seite 462 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Seite 471 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Seite 465 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations, which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Seite 469 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Seite 472 - Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy.
Seite 458 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a People.
Seite 471 - ... novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt, that in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices?