...protected." 4 " To the public," said Davies, a learned divine, in the following month, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington^ whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." " Who is Mr. Washington...

...protected." 4 " To the public," said Davies^ a learned divine, in the following month, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." " Who is Mr. Washington?"...

...head of the nation ; as Rev. Samuel Davies expressed it, that " Providence has hitherto preserved him in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The same expectation, becoming almost a premonition, has for years been general among the friends of...

...eulogy on the bravery of the Virginia troops — " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner, for some important service to his country." Mr. Irving observes that the public confidence in Washington was the more creditable to the good sense...

...then gives as an episode or note, saying, " I may point out to the public, that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...manner for some important service to his country." Doct. Davis' text, in the foregoing sermon, was from 2d Saml. x. 12. "Be of good courage, and let us...

...preacher, and appended in a note : " I may point out to the public," said he, " that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...manner, for some important service to his country." How fully that prophecy was fulfilled let all subsequent history prove ; let the thousands who annually...

...good soldier ; in a note to which, he says : " I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved, in so signal a manner, for so me important service to his country." A similar sermon was preached to the militia May 8, 1759,...

...Washington, whom I cannot but * Sparks. Writings of "Washington, vol. ii., p. 161, not*. hope Providence lias hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country" The expressions of the worthy clergyman may have been deemed enthusiastic at the time ; viewed in connection...

...good soldier ; in a note to which, he says : " I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved, in so signal a manner,for some important service to his country." A similar sermon was preached to the militia May...

...and in a note to which he alludes prophetically to Washington — " That heroic youth," says he, i; Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence...manner, for some important service to his country." On another occasion, he preached a Sermon to the Militia of Hanover County, with a view to raise a...