The True Story of George Washington: Called the Father of His Country

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Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1895 - 204 Seiten
This book tells how George Washington was always a "truth-teller, truth-liver, and truth-doer, both as boy and man."
 

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Seite 61 - 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 164 - But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Seite 74 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Seite 71 - 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 74 - Virginia who was among us and very well known to all of us, a gentleman whose skill and experience as an officer, whose independent fortune, great talents, and excellent universal character, would command the approbation of all America and unite the cordial exertions of all the Colonies better than any other person in the Union.
Seite 159 - I must erect for the accommodation and security of my military, civil, and private papers, which are voluminous and may be interesting), yet I have scarcely any thing else about me, that does not require considerable repairs. In a word, I am already surrounded by joiners, masons, and painters ; and such is my anxiety to get out of their hands, that I have scarcely a room to put a friend into, or to sit in myself, without the music of hammers, or the odoriferous scent of paint.
Seite 1 - February 22d, 1819, wrote shortly before his death, to a schoolgirl, whose class proposed noticing his own birthday : " Whatever else you do on the twenty-second of February, recollect, first of all, that on that day a really great man was born, and do not fail to warm your hearts with the memory of his service, and to brace your minds with the contemplation of his character. The rest of us must wait uncovered till he be served.
Seite 63 - Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess.
Seite 57 - Washington had worked so hard to get things ready that he was sick in bed with fever when the soldiers started; but, without waiting to get well, he hurried after them and caught up with them on the ninth of July, at a ford on the Monongahela, fifteen miles from Fort Duquesne. The British troops, in full uniform, and in regular order as if they were to drill before the King, marched straight on in splendid array. Washington thought it the most beautiful show he had ever seen; but he said to the general:...
Seite 141 - His Highness the President of the United States and Protector of their Liberties," or simply "The President of the United States"?

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