The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United StatesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1853 |
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Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United States Aaron Bancroft. 魯 THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON , COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF.
Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United States Aaron Bancroft. 魯 THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON , COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF.
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... His efforts to defend the frontiers - His exertions in the expedition under General FORBES to gain pos- session of Fort du Quesne - Resigns his commis- - Page 11 sion · · CHAPTER II . Colonel WASHINGTON's Marriage - His Management of.
... His efforts to defend the frontiers - His exertions in the expedition under General FORBES to gain pos- session of Fort du Quesne - Resigns his commis- - Page 11 sion · · CHAPTER II . Colonel WASHINGTON's Marriage - His Management of.
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... WASHINGTON on the State of the Army - Congress adopts a Military Establishment for the War - The Army goes into Winter Quarters 196 2 LIFE or GEORGE WASHINGTON . CHAPTER I. His Birth - 10 CONTENTS .
... WASHINGTON on the State of the Army - Congress adopts a Military Establishment for the War - The Army goes into Winter Quarters 196 2 LIFE or GEORGE WASHINGTON . CHAPTER I. His Birth - 10 CONTENTS .
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... Washington was small . After the completion of his course with his tu- tor , he was engaged in useful industry ; and for several years of his minority , employed as a county surveyor . In this employment he distinguished himself by his ...
... Washington was small . After the completion of his course with his tu- tor , he was engaged in useful industry ; and for several years of his minority , employed as a county surveyor . In this employment he distinguished himself by his ...
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adopted American army appointed arms artillery assault attack attempt body Boston British army camp campaign character circumstances citizens Colonel WASHINGTON Commander in Chief communicated conduct confidence Congress consequence corps Count d'Estaing danger defence Delaware detachment disposition duty effect encampment endeavours enemy engaged enlistments execution exertions expected expedition favourable force Fort Mifflin France French friends garrison Gene Governour honour hundred Indians induced INGTON Island letter liberty Lord Cornwallis Lord Loudoun manner measures ment miles military militia mind Mount Vernon nation necessary neral New-Jersey New-York North river occasion officers opinion orders party passed patriotism peace Philadelphia possession present President provisions publick rear reason Red Bank regiment reinforcements rendered resolution respect retreat road secure Sir Henry Clinton Sir William situation soldiers soon spirit success superiour thousand tion treaty troops United Virginia WASHING winter wish wounded York Island
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182 ページ - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
174 ページ - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest,...
184 ページ - Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?
175 ページ - The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand.
173 ページ - ... the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by .so careful a preservation and so prudent a 'use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
186 ページ - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
180 ページ - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. THIS spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
178 ページ - Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
173 ページ - ... agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging — in situations in which not unfrequently want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism — the constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts, and a guarantee of the plans, by which they were effected.
178 ページ - To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management...