 | George Washington - 1855 - 574 Seiten
...proximity, and by the ease with which land transportation may be had between them and the Lakes on one side, and the Rivers Potomac and James on the...dictate what is right and proper to be done. In the mean while, if it should be thought that the lapse of time, which Is necessary to effect this work,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1855 - 638 Seiten
...similar survey of the rivers west of the Ohio as far as Detroit. "These things being done," said he, "I shall be mistaken if prejudice does not yield to...not dictate what is right and proper to be done." The governor laid this letter before the legislature. It was the first suggestion of the great system... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1885 - 126 Seiten
...Ohio waters, and the Great Lakes, be presented to the public. " These things being done," he says, " I shall be mistaken if prejudice does not yield to...not dictate what is right and proper to be done." 1 While advocating the Potomac route to a citizen of Maryland, Washington declares with patriotic fervor:... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1885 - 606 Seiten
...Ohio waters, and the Great Lakes, be presented to the public. " These things being done," he says, "I shall be mistaken if prejudice does not yield to...not dictate what is right and proper to be done." 1 While advocating the Potomac route to a citizen of Maryland, "Washington declares with patriotic... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1885 - 116 Seiten
...be presented to the public. " These things being done," he says, "I shall be mistaken if prejndice does not yield to facts, jealousy to candor, and,...not dictate what is right and proper to be done." 1 While advocating the Potomac route to a citizen of Maryland, Washington declares with patriotic fervor:... | |
 | 1900 - 368 Seiten
...proximity, and by the ease with which land transportation may be had between them and the lakes on one side, and the Rivers Potomac and James on the...connected map of the whole be presented to the public." lie estimated that if the improvements here indicated should be constructed, the distance from Detroit,... | |
 | 1895 - 366 Seiten
...proximity, and by the ease with which land transportation may be had between them and the lakes on one side, and the Rivers Potomac and James on the...connected map of the whole be presented to the public." He estimated that if the improvements here indicated should be constructed, the distance from Detroit,... | |
 | Manasseh Cutler - 1888 - 114 Seiten
...proximity, and by the ease with which land transportation may be had between them and the lakes on one side, and the Rivers Potomac and James on the...connected map of the whole be presented to the public." He estimated that if the improvements here indicated should be constructed, the distance from Detroit,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1889 - 800 Seiten
...transportation between them and the James and Potomac rivers. " These things being done," he said, "I shall be mistaken if prejudice does not yield to...do not dictate what is right and proper to be done " (Writings of Washington, IX. 65). This suggestion was adopted, and a commission appointed. • Writings,... | |
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In a word, let the waters east and west of the Ohio, which invite our notice by their proximity, and by the ease with which land transportation may be had between them and the Lakes on one side, and the Rivers Potomac and James on the other, be explored,... 
