George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1889 - 776 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action affairs allies American army André appeared Arnold arrived attack Augustine Washington battle began Boston British Burgoyne campaign cause character Chesapeake Clinton Colonel colonies command commander-in-chief Congress Cornwallis courage D'Estaing danger defeat delay difficulties enemy England English everything expedition fact failed Fairfax feeling felt fight force fought French French fleet Gates gave George George Washington Gouverneur Morris Governor Grasse gress HENRY CABOT LODGE House of Burgesses idea Indians ington John John Adams knew Lafayette land Lawrence Washington letter looked ment military militia mind Mount Vernon mutiny never numbers obliged officers once passed patriotic peace peril Philadelphia political ready retreat Revolution river Rochambeau rode seemed sent soldiers spirit Stony Point strong struggle success thing thirteen colonies thought thousand tion took town troops turned 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 223 - 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.
Seite 329 - 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 340 - 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I accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task, which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union and the patronage of Heaven.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 295 - 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 134 - You had prepared me to entertain a favorable opinion of him, but I thought the half was not told me. Dignity with ease and complacency, the gentleman and soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face.
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 326 - ... under present circumstances, when I see such a number of men, goaded by a thousand stings of reflection on the past, and of anticipation on the future, about to be turned into the world, soured by penury, and what they call the ingratitude of the public...