The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, Throughout the War which Established Their Independence, and First President of the United StatesJ. Jewett, 1832 - 246 ページ |
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... Favours inland navigation . Declines offered emoluments from it . Urges an alteration of the fundamental rules of the society of the Cincinnati . Regrets the defects of the Federal system , and recommends a revisal of it . Is appointed ...
... Favours inland navigation . Declines offered emoluments from it . Urges an alteration of the fundamental rules of the society of the Cincinnati . Regrets the defects of the Federal system , and recommends a revisal of it . Is appointed ...
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... favour of the English . This weak ened the influence of the former over the Indians , and caused them to withdraw from the support of the garrison . Under different circumstances , the success of the campaign would have been doubtful ...
... favour of the English . This weak ened the influence of the former over the Indians , and caused them to withdraw from the support of the garrison . Under different circumstances , the success of the campaign would have been doubtful ...
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... favour the execution of this plan , the town and lines of the enemy were bombarded on the 2d , 3d , and 4th of March . On the night of the 4th , general Thomas , with a considerable detachment , took possession of the heights of ...
... favour the execution of this plan , the town and lines of the enemy were bombarded on the 2d , 3d , and 4th of March . On the night of the 4th , general Thomas , with a considerable detachment , took possession of the heights of ...
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... favoured this retreat , which was completed , with- out interruption , some time after the dawning of the day . The loss sustained by the American army , in the engage- ments on Long Island , was very considerable , but it could not be ...
... favoured this retreat , which was completed , with- out interruption , some time after the dawning of the day . The loss sustained by the American army , in the engage- ments on Long Island , was very considerable , but it could not be ...
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... favour of his own proposition , and proceeded reluctantly towards the Delaware . While on this march through Morris county , and at a distance of about twenty miles from the enemy , he , very indiscreetly , quartered , under a slight ...
... favour of his own proposition , and proceeded reluctantly towards the Delaware . While on this march through Morris county , and at a distance of about twenty miles from the enemy , he , very indiscreetly , quartered , under a slight ...
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221 ページ - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
218 ページ - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
213 ページ - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
226 ページ - I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression 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...
151 ページ - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
225 ページ - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
223 ページ - ... latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions ; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained ; and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld...
176 ページ - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
214 ページ - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop ; but a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
219 ページ - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...