Life of George Washington, Band 3G.P. Putnam's sons, 1856 |
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Seite 380 - I am not worth purchasing ; but such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Seite 411 - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meetinghouse, for since I have resided in this country I have kept so much bad company when living, that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
Seite 129 - Edmund Palmer, an officer in the enemy's service, was taken as a spy lurking within our lines ; he has been tried as a spy, condemned as a spy, and shall be executed as a spy ; and the flag is ordered to depart immediately. " ISRAEL PUTNAM. " PS — He has, accordingly, been executed.
Seite 306 - It's a very pleasing circumstance to the division under my command," writes Varnum, " that there is a probability of their marching ; three days successively we have been destitute of bread. Two days we have been entirely without meat. The men must be supplied, or they cannot be commanded.
Seite 241 - The incessant cannonade during the solemnity ; the steady attitude and unaltered voice with which the chaplain officiated, though frequently covered with dust, which the shot threw up on all sides of him ; the mute but expressive mixture of sensibility and indignation upon every countenance — these objects will remain to the last of life upon the mind of every man who was present.
Seite 181 - This gentleman, we are told, has been, like us, engaged in defending the liberty and independence of his country, and has sacrificed his fortune to his zeal for those objects. He derives from hence a title to our respect, that ought to operate in his favor, as far as the good of the service will permit; but it can never be expected we should lose sight of this.
Seite 448 - ... speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men ; that 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,...
Seite 175 - Upwards of one hundred men, women, and children, have perished by the hands of the ruffians, to whom it is asserted you have paid the price of blood.
Seite 368 - ... throughout the country. The 6th of May was set apart for a military fete at the camp at Valley Forge. The army was assembled in best array ; there was solemn thanksgiving by the chaplains at the head of each brigade ; after which a grand parade, a national discharge of thirteen guns, a general feu de joie, and shouts of the whole army, " Long live the King of France — Long live the friendly European Powers — Huzza for the American States.
Seite 96 - The evacuation of Ticonderoga and Mount Independence is an event of chagrin and surprise not apprehended, nor within the compass of my reasoning.