...generously as he had helped him into it. " Sit down, Mr. Washington," said he, in his most courteous manner, "your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess." Nothing could be more elegant or skilful than this double stroke, which not...

...blushed and faltered for a moment, when the Speaker relieved him from his embarrassment by saying, " Sit down, Mr. Washington, your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess." This stage-fright seems to have clung to him. When Adams hinted that Congress...

...before his fellow-members blushing and stammering, until the Speaker with ready tact interposed : " Sit down, Mr. Washington, your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses, the power of any language I possess. " It is an old story, and often repeated ; but when it was a fresh, new story,...

...arose and vainly tried to make the proper response, until the Speaker, seeing his predicament, kindly said : " Sit down, Mr. Washington ; your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." A few months before the seizure of Fort Duquesne, the British captured the fortress...

...speak a word. The speaker relieved his confusion by coming to his assistance with the kind remark : " Sit down, Mr. Washington ; your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." The English cause was now more successful than it had ever been, and Canada was...

...speaker relieving him by a still higher compliment, ingeniously added, from the inspiration of truth : " Sit down, Mr. Washington ; your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess." He »!•//.« nn\v twenty-seven years of a^e, exception of his attendance...

...he at this manifestation that he could not reF,pond. "Sit down, Mr. Washington," said the Speaker. "Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." He continued a member of the House of Burgesses fourteen or fifteen years. As...

...trembled, and could not utter a word. " Sit down, Mr. Washington," said the Speaker with a smile ; " your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." For the next sixteen years Washington's life passed quietly and contentedly. Then...

...distinct utterance to a single syllable." The Speaker came to his rescue most masterfully. He called out: "Sit down, Mr. Washington ! Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." Is it any wonder that a man who, at so early an age, had won such recognition...

...stammering, without being able to say a word. The Speaker, equal to the occasion, said with much grace, " Sit down, Mr. Washington, your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language to express." While for many years after the close of the Last French War this modest, home-loving...