The Life of George Washington: First President, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America |
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The Assembly of Virginia also recommended to the colonies to appoint a
Congress of Delegates to deliberate on the critical state of their affairs .
Meanwhile the Bostonians were not inactive . They framed an agreement , which
they called a ...
The Assembly of Virginia also recommended to the colonies to appoint a
Congress of Delegates to deliberate on the critical state of their affairs .
Meanwhile the Bostonians were not inactive . They framed an agreement , which
they called a ...
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In February , 1775 , the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts met at Cambridge
. Several military institutions for the protection of the pro vince were enacted .
Among the most remarkable of which was the minute - men . A number of the
most ...
In February , 1775 , the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts met at Cambridge
. Several military institutions for the protection of the pro vince were enacted .
Among the most remarkable of which was the minute - men . A number of the
most ...
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His reply to the President of Congress , on his nomination to the supreme
command of the army , was in the following words : “ Mr . President , “ Though I
am truly sensible of the high honour done me in this appointment , yet I feel great
distress ...
His reply to the President of Congress , on his nomination to the supreme
command of the army , was in the following words : “ Mr . President , “ Though I
am truly sensible of the high honour done me in this appointment , yet I feel great
distress ...
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When Congress sent their second petition to the king , they also sent an address
to the people of Great Britain , and another to the inhabitants of Ireland . At the
same time they wrote to the Canadians , exhorting them to assert their rights , and
...
When Congress sent their second petition to the king , they also sent an address
to the people of Great Britain , and another to the inhabitants of Ireland . At the
same time they wrote to the Canadians , exhorting them to assert their rights , and
...
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When Congress were informed of these exertions in Canada , they thought it
expedient to make a vigorous attack upon that province , in order to prevent the
invasion of their north western frontier . In consequence of this determination , an
...
When Congress were informed of these exertions in Canada , they thought it
expedient to make a vigorous attack upon that province , in order to prevent the
invasion of their north western frontier . In consequence of this determination , an
...
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206 ページ - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
217 ページ - ... infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
205 ページ - In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions — that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country — that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
197 ページ - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
213 ページ - So likewise a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.
194 ページ - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
218 ページ - I could wish — that they will control the usual current of the passions or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good — that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism — this hope will be a full recompense for...
217 ページ - ... establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate...
199 ページ - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the west can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
211 ページ - ... the payment of debts there must be revenue ; that to have revenue there must be taxes ; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the' proper objects, (which is always a choice of difficulties,) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in- the measures for obtaining revenue which the public...
書誌情報
| 書籍名 | The Life of George Washington: First President, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America |
| 著者 | John Corry |
| 版 | 再版 |
| 出版社 | M'Carty & White, 1809 |
| 書籍の提供元 | ニューヨーク公共図書館 |
| デジタル化された日 | 2007年7月23日 |
| ページ数 | 239 ページ |
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