Life of George Washington, Band 4G.P. Putnam, 1857 |
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... receiving , as heretofore , a commission on expenditures , was to have a fixed salary in paper currency ; and his deputies were to be compensated in like man- ner , without the usual allowance of rations and forage . No com- petent ...
... receiving , as heretofore , a commission on expenditures , was to have a fixed salary in paper currency ; and his deputies were to be compensated in like man- ner , without the usual allowance of rations and forage . No com- petent ...
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... received by them , should be considered as advanced on ac- count , and comprehended at their just value in the final settlement . At this gloomy crisis came a letter from the Marquis de La- fayette , dated April 27th , announcing his ...
... received by them , should be considered as advanced on ac- count , and comprehended at their just value in the final settlement . At this gloomy crisis came a letter from the Marquis de La- fayette , dated April 27th , announcing his ...
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... received with pleasure a " tender of the further services of so gallant and meritorious an officer . " Within three days after the departure of the marquis from Morristown , Washington , in a letter to him , gave his idea of the plan ...
... received with pleasure a " tender of the further services of so gallant and meritorious an officer . " Within three days after the departure of the marquis from Morristown , Washington , in a letter to him , gave his idea of the plan ...
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... received a joint summons from the British general and admiral to surren- der . " Sixty days have passed , " writes Lincoln in reply , " since it has been known that your intentions against this town were hostile , in which , time has ...
... received a joint summons from the British general and admiral to surren- der . " Sixty days have passed , " writes Lincoln in reply , " since it has been known that your intentions against this town were hostile , in which , time has ...
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... to carry fire and sword into the Jerseys ! It was even so . Knyphausen , through spies and emissaries , had received exaggerated accounts of the recent outbreak in 1780. ] GENERAL STERLING WOUNDED . 57 Washington's camp ,
... to carry fire and sword into the Jerseys ! It was even so . Knyphausen , through spies and emissaries , had received exaggerated accounts of the recent outbreak in 1780. ] GENERAL STERLING WOUNDED . 57 Washington's camp ,
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Seite 408 - I consider it as an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
Seite 411 - Free from the bustle of a camp and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments of which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame; the statesman, whose watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other...
Seite 268 - 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 burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration.
Seite 375 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor...
Seite 448 - I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States. To be fearful of investing Congress, constituted as that body is, with ample authorities for national purposes, appears to me .the very climax of popular absurdity and madness.
Seite 207 - you have kept me waiting at the head of the stairs these ten minutes. I must tell you, sir, you treat me with disrespect." I replied, without petulancy, but with decision, " I am not conscious of it, sir ; but since you have thought it necessary to tell me so, we part.
Seite 447 - We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
Seite 456 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Seite 394 - These are the pillars on which the glorious fabric of our independency and national character must be supported. Liberty is the basis; and whoever would dare to sap the foundation, or overturn the structure, under whatever specious pretext he may attempt it, will merit the bitterest execration, and the severest punishment, which can be inflicted by his injured country.
Seite 383 - ... faithful services. Resolved unanimously, that the army continue to have an unshaken confidence in the justice of congress and their country, and...