George Washington, Band 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1889 |
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... colonies , and one of the leading men of Virginia . Let us pause a moment and look at him as he stands on the threshold of this momentous period , rightly called momentous because it was the formative period in the life of such a man ...
... colonies , and one of the leading men of Virginia . Let us pause a moment and look at him as he stands on the threshold of this momentous period , rightly called momentous because it was the formative period in the life of such a man ...
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... colonies , and was interested and attracted by this association with distinguished pub- lic men . In the army to which he was attached he studied with the deepest attention the best dis- cipline of Europe , observing everything and ...
... colonies , and was interested and attracted by this association with distinguished pub- lic men . In the army to which he was attached he studied with the deepest attention the best dis- cipline of Europe , observing everything and ...
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... had two horses shot under him and four bullets through his coat . The Indians thought he bore a charmed life , while his death was reported in the colonies , together with his dying speech , which , ON THE FRONTIER . 83.
... had two horses shot under him and four bullets through his coat . The Indians thought he bore a charmed life , while his death was reported in the colonies , together with his dying speech , which , ON THE FRONTIER . 83.
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Henry Cabot Lodge. colonies , together with his dying speech , which , he dryly wrote to his brother , he had not yet com- posed . When the troops broke it was Washington who gathered the fugitives and brought off the dying general . It ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. colonies , together with his dying speech , which , he dryly wrote to his brother , he had not yet com- posed . When the troops broke it was Washington who gathered the fugitives and brought off the dying general . It ...
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... colonies . Every door flew open to him as he passed , and every one was de- lighted to welcome the young soldier . He was dined and wined and fêted in Philadelphia , and again in New York , where he fell in love at appar- ently short ...
... colonies . Every door flew open to him as he passed , and every one was de- lighted to welcome the young soldier . He was dined and wined and fêted in Philadelphia , and again in New York , where he fell in love at appar- ently short ...
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action affairs allies American army appeared arms attack Augustine Washington battle began Boston brilliant British Burgoyne campaign cause character Clinton Colonel colonies command commander-in-chief Congress Conway Conway cabal Cornwallis courage danger defeat difficulties doubt enemy England English everything expedition fact failed Fairfax resolves feeling fell felt fight fleet force Fort Duquesne fought French Gates gave George Washington Governor gress House of Burgesses idea Indians ington John Adams knew Lafayette land Lawrence Washington letter look ment military militia mind Mount Vernon never numbers obliged officers once passed patriotic peace peril Philadelphia planters political Raleigh tavern ready result retreat Revolution river rode seemed sent soldiers spirit strong struggle success thing thought thousand tion took town troops Vernon parish victory Virginia Wash Washington wrote Weems Williamsburg winter words York Yorktown
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 50 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Seite 334 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task, which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union and the patronage of Heaven.
Seite 221 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.
Seite 323 - 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 can 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.
Seite 171 - No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud.
Seite 291 - It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard, that, in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruins.
Seite 87 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving. petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Seite 124 - I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march with them at their head for the relief of Boston.
Seite 85 - Honored Madam: If it is in my power to avoid going to the Ohio again, I shall; but if the command is pressed upon me by the general voice of the country, and offered upon such terms as cannot be objected against, it would reflect dishonor on me to refuse it...
Seite 252 - ... party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day; whilst the momentous concerns of an empire, a great and accumulating debt, ruined finances, depreciated money, and want of credit, which in its consequences is the want of everything, are but secondary considerations, and postponed from day to day, from week to week, as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect.