The Life of George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United States, Band 2Lewis & Sampson, 1844 |
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... friends , and the ardour of soldiers , to share the fatigues and dan- gers of the campaign , he proposed to receive them at some other more convenient place ; and for this pur- pose would march the whole line of the American ar- my at ...
... friends , and the ardour of soldiers , to share the fatigues and dan- gers of the campaign , he proposed to receive them at some other more convenient place ; and for this pur- pose would march the whole line of the American ar- my at ...
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... friends , I conceive to be your situation - hurried to the very verge of both , another step would ruin you for ever— to be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard upon you , is more than weakness ; but to look up for kinder usage ...
... friends , I conceive to be your situation - hurried to the very verge of both , another step would ruin you for ever— to be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard upon you , is more than weakness ; but to look up for kinder usage ...
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... my conduct heretofore has not evinced to you , that I have been a faithful friend to the army , my declara- tion of it at this time would be equally unavailing and improper . But as I was among the first who 36 [ 1783 . LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... my conduct heretofore has not evinced to you , that I have been a faithful friend to the army , my declara- tion of it at this time would be equally unavailing and improper . But as I was among the first who 36 [ 1783 . LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
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... friend to the army ? Can he be a friend to this country ? Rather is he not an insidious foe ; some emissary , perhaps , from New - York , plotting the ruin of both , by sowing the seeds of discord and sepa- ration between the civil and ...
... friend to the army ? Can he be a friend to this country ? Rather is he not an insidious foe ; some emissary , perhaps , from New - York , plotting the ruin of both , by sowing the seeds of discord and sepa- ration between the civil and ...
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... friendship of their Ge- neral , the officers placed unbounded confidence ; and his recommendations carried in resistible weight . The most desperate had not the hardihood to oppose his ad- vice . General Knox moved , and Brigadier ...
... friendship of their Ge- neral , the officers placed unbounded confidence ; and his recommendations carried in resistible weight . The most desperate had not the hardihood to oppose his ad- vice . General Knox moved , and Brigadier ...
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