The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States, Band 2Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852 |
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... Independence stood . This movement was principally intended to support and favor an enterprise , which I had projected against a corps of refugees , under the command of Colonel Delancey , at Morrisania , and other light troops without ...
... Independence stood . This movement was principally intended to support and favor an enterprise , which I had projected against a corps of refugees , under the command of Colonel Delancey , at Morrisania , and other light troops without ...
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... independence of the United States , I viewed as a most fortunate event . In performing my part towards its accomplishment , I consider myself to have done only my duty , and in the execution of that I ever feel myself hap- py ; and at ...
... independence of the United States , I viewed as a most fortunate event . In performing my part towards its accomplishment , I consider myself to have done only my duty , and in the execution of that I ever feel myself hap- py ; and at ...
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... independence . A relaxation of our exertions at this moment may cost us many more toilsome campaigns , and be attended with the most unhappy consequences . " Your condolence for the loss of that amiable youth , Mr. Custis , affects me ...
... independence . A relaxation of our exertions at this moment may cost us many more toilsome campaigns , and be attended with the most unhappy consequences . " Your condolence for the loss of that amiable youth , Mr. Custis , affects me ...
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... independence , and happiness of America will shortly be established upon the surest found- ation , I think it a duty incumbent upon me to observe , that those most desirable objects are not to be fully at- tained but by a continuance of ...
... independence , and happiness of America will shortly be established upon the surest found- ation , I think it a duty incumbent upon me to observe , that those most desirable objects are not to be fully at- tained but by a continuance of ...
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... independence ; yet , as I am apprehensive the pros- perous issue of the combined operation , in Virginia , may have , ( as is too common , in such cases , ) the pernicious tendency of lulling the country into a lethargy of inac- tivity ...
... independence ; yet , as I am apprehensive the pros- perous issue of the combined operation , in Virginia , may have , ( as is too common , in such cases , ) the pernicious tendency of lulling the country into a lethargy of inac- tivity ...
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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 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 140 - What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing. I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking ; thence to acting is often but a single step.
Seite 372 - Item I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government...
Seite 140 - We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
Seite 166 - ... day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years...