| John Pickell - 1856 - 178 Seiten
...highest pride and satisfaction, paused for a moment, and then, as if moved by inspiration, continued: "I may point out to the public that heroic youth,...cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved krso signal a manner for some important service to his country." Colonel Washington continued in the... | |
| Elihu Rich - 1856 - 1080 Seiten
...following prophetic remark of Washington : ' I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...so signal a manner, for some important service to Ms country.' DAVIES, ROBERT, a Welch bard and literary savant, author of a Welch Grammar, &e., 1770-1836.... | |
| Joseph Banvard - 1856 - 268 Seiten
...instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I can not but hope Providence has hitherto preserved, in so...manner, for some important service to his country."* How well this prediction was verified, the subsequent history of Washington has shown. In this engagement... | |
| 1856 - 86 Seiten
...head of the nation ; as Rev. Samuel Davies expressed it, that " Providence has hitherto preserved him in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The same expectation, becoming almost a premonition, has for years been general among the friends of... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 501 Seiten
...protected." 4 " To the public," said Davies^ a learned divine, in the following month, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." " Who is Mr. Washington?"... | |
| J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 Seiten
...tongue. Said Davis, a distinguished clergyman, in referring to this defeat in a sermon, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved, in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." A remarkable prophecy,... | |
| george bancropt - 1856 - 496 Seiten
...protected." 4 " To the public," said Davies, a learned divine, in the following month, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington^ whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." " Who is Mr. Washington... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 Seiten
...protected." " To the public," said Dovies, a learned divine, in the following month, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." "Who is Mr. Washington?"... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 596 Seiten
...eulogy on the bravery of the Virginia troops — " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner, for some important service to his country." Mr. Irving observes that the public confidence in Washington was the more creditable to the good sense... | |
| 1857 - 534 Seiten
...preacher, and appended in a note : " I may point out to the public," said he, " that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...manner, for some important service to his country." How fully that prophecy was fulfilled let all subsequent history prove ; let the thousands who annually... | |
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