The Life of George Washington: First President, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of AmericaM'Carty & White, 1809 - 239 ページ |
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... would have fallen into their hands . Meanwhile , Sir Henry Clinton undertook an expedition to Rhode - Island , and became master of that province without the loss of a man . The affairs of the Americans also wore an WASHINGTON . 99.
... would have fallen into their hands . Meanwhile , Sir Henry Clinton undertook an expedition to Rhode - Island , and became master of that province without the loss of a man . The affairs of the Americans also wore an WASHINGTON . 99.
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... on Sir Henry Clinton . The English commissioners appointed by the British ministry , to attempt a reconcilia- tion with the colonists , arrived at New - York in the beginning of June ; but before they could 120 THE LIFE OF.
... on Sir Henry Clinton . The English commissioners appointed by the British ministry , to attempt a reconcilia- tion with the colonists , arrived at New - York in the beginning of June ; but before they could 120 THE LIFE OF.
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... Henry Clinton , had made such judicious arrangements of his troops , that the enemy were unable to make any impression on his rear . The British grenadiers and light infantry engaged the Americans with such vigour that their first line ...
... Henry Clinton , had made such judicious arrangements of his troops , that the enemy were unable to make any impression on his rear . The British grenadiers and light infantry engaged the Americans with such vigour that their first line ...
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... Henry Clinton returned with his victorious army from Charleston , and General Arnold , who had been entrusted with the command of a very considerable di- vision of the American army at West Point , agreed to deliver up.that important ...
... Henry Clinton returned with his victorious army from Charleston , and General Arnold , who had been entrusted with the command of a very considerable di- vision of the American army at West Point , agreed to deliver up.that important ...
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... Henry Clinton , by confidential messa- ges , offered to take them under the protec- tion of the British government , and made several proposals that were highly advanta- geous . The mutineers , however , to shew their adherence to the ...
... Henry Clinton , by confidential messa- ges , offered to take them under the protec- tion of the British government , and made several proposals that were highly advanta- geous . The mutineers , however , to shew their adherence to the ...
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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...