George Washington, Band 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1889 |
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... strong race evidently , these Washingtons , whom we see now only by glimpses through the mists of time , not brilliant apparently , never winning the very highest fortune , having their failures and re- verses no doubt , but on the ...
... strong race evidently , these Washingtons , whom we see now only by glimpses through the mists of time , not brilliant apparently , never winning the very highest fortune , having their failures and re- verses no doubt , but on the ...
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... strong sense , and had the power of conducting business matters providently and ex- actly . She was an imperious woman , of strong will , ruling her kingdom alone . Above all she was very dignified , very silent , and very sober ...
... strong sense , and had the power of conducting business matters providently and ex- actly . She was an imperious woman , of strong will , ruling her kingdom alone . Above all she was very dignified , very silent , and very sober ...
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... strong , hearty boy , offering a serious problem to his mother , who was struggling along with many acres , little money , and five children . Mrs. Washington's chief desire naturally was to put George in the way of getting a living ...
... strong , hearty boy , offering a serious problem to his mother , who was struggling along with many acres , little money , and five children . Mrs. Washington's chief desire naturally was to put George in the way of getting a living ...
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... strong , he was , take him for all in all , as fine a specimen of his race as could be found in the English colonies . Let us look a little closer through the keen eyes of one who studied many faces to good purpose . The great painter ...
... strong , he was , take him for all in all , as fine a specimen of his race as could be found in the English colonies . Let us look a little closer through the keen eyes of one who studied many faces to good purpose . The great painter ...
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... strong faculty for deal- ing with men , always a rare and precious gift . As in the little Barbadoes diary , so also in this journal , we see , and far more strongly , the penetration and perception that nothing could escape , and which ...
... strong faculty for deal- ing with men , always a rare and precious gift . As in the little Barbadoes diary , so also in this journal , we see , and far more strongly , the penetration and perception that nothing could escape , and which ...
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action affairs allies American army appeared arms attack Augustine Washington battle began Boston brilliant British Burgoyne campaign cause character Clinton Colonel colonies command commander-in-chief Congress Conway Conway cabal Cornwallis courage danger defeat difficulties doubt enemy England English everything expedition fact failed Fairfax resolves feeling fell felt fight fleet force Fort Duquesne fought French Gates gave George Washington Governor gress House of Burgesses idea Indians ington John Adams knew Lafayette land Lawrence Washington letter look ment military militia mind Mount Vernon never numbers obliged officers once passed patriotic peace peril Philadelphia planters political Raleigh tavern ready retreat Revolution river rode seemed sent soldiers spirit strong struggle success thing thought thousand tion took town troops turned Vernon parish victory Virginia Wash Washington wrote Weems Williamsburg winter words York Yorktown
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Seite 50 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Seite 334 - 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 221 - 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. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.
Seite 323 - 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 171 - No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud.
Seite 291 - 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 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 252 - ... party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day; whilst the momentous concerns of an empire, a great and accumulating debt, ruined finances, depreciated money, and want of credit, which in its consequences is the want of everything, are but secondary considerations, and postponed from day to day, from week to week, as if our affairs wore the most promising aspect.