The Life of General Washington: First President of the United StatesCharles Wentworth Upham T. Nelson and sons, 1856 |
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... Constitution ,. CHAPTER XXIII . Washington chosen President of the United States , CHAPTER XXIV . Washington's Administration , CHAPTER XXV . Washington's final Retirement from Public Life , . Page 7 73 120 · 133 155 172 259 CHAPTER ...
... Constitution ,. CHAPTER XXIII . Washington chosen President of the United States , CHAPTER XXIV . Washington's Administration , CHAPTER XXV . Washington's final Retirement from Public Life , . Page 7 73 120 · 133 155 172 259 CHAPTER ...
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... constitutional way , extend , they shall be employed to the utmost of my abilities to effect it , should there be any occasion . Let me conjure you , then , if you have any regard for your country , concern for yourself or posterity ...
... constitutional way , extend , they shall be employed to the utmost of my abilities to effect it , should there be any occasion . Let me conjure you , then , if you have any regard for your country , concern for yourself or posterity ...
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... constitution . I wish , however , that your expectations of returning sentiments of liberality may be verified . I have a hope , that they may ; but , should they not , your case will not be a singular one . Ingrati- tude has been ...
... constitution . I wish , however , that your expectations of returning sentiments of liberality may be verified . I have a hope , that they may ; but , should they not , your case will not be a singular one . Ingrati- tude has been ...
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... constitution , I was of a short - lived family , and might soon expect to be entombed in the mansion of my fathers . These thoughts darkened the shades , and gave a gloom to the picture , and consequently to my prospect of seeing you ...
... constitution , I was of a short - lived family , and might soon expect to be entombed in the mansion of my fathers . These thoughts darkened the shades , and gave a gloom to the picture , and consequently to my prospect of seeing you ...
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... constitutional , re- publican , and limited governments , under various diversi- ties of form , but all tending to the preservation and security of the great interests of popular liberty and order . The work of establishing governments ...
... constitutional , re- publican , and limited governments , under various diversi- ties of form , but all tending to the preservation and security of the great interests of popular liberty and order . The work of establishing governments ...
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Seite 323 - The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds, in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise, and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South, in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand.
Seite 325 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the union by which they were procured? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens?
Seite 320 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved...
Seite 337 - I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence, and that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service, with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several...
Seite 320 - In the discharge of this trust I will only say, that I have with good intentions contributed towards the organization and administration of the government, the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience, in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Seite 122 - I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life with a heartfelt satisfaction.
Seite 122 - At length my Dear Marquis I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, and under the shadow of my own Vine and my own Fig-tree, free from the bustle of a camp and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments, of which the Soldier who is ever in pursuit of fame, the Statesman whose watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe was insufficient...
Seite 316 - Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state ? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best— The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but One !
Seite 330 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure — reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Seite 92 - I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs, that cap befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.