The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen ... Embellished with Six EngravingsJ. Allen, 1840 - 244 ページ |
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... human perfectibility and true greatness , that , compared there- with , the history of his capturing Cornwallis and Tarleton , with their buccaneering legions , sounds almost as small as the story of General Putnam's catching his wolf ...
... human perfectibility and true greatness , that , compared there- with , the history of his capturing Cornwallis and Tarleton , with their buccaneering legions , sounds almost as small as the story of General Putnam's catching his wolf ...
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... human nature is capable , through the virtues and graces early implanted in the heart , he never for a moment , lost sight of George in those all - important respects . To assist his son to overcome that selfish spirit , which too often ...
... human nature is capable , through the virtues and graces early implanted in the heart , he never for a moment , lost sight of George in those all - important respects . To assist his son to overcome that selfish spirit , which too often ...
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... human destruction , sufficient to excite sympathy in hearts of flintiest stone . On cautiously entering the hapless plantation with his men , they halt and listen awhile - but hear no voice of man - see no house , nor sign of habitation ...
... human destruction , sufficient to excite sympathy in hearts of flintiest stone . On cautiously entering the hapless plantation with his men , they halt and listen awhile - but hear no voice of man - see no house , nor sign of habitation ...
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... human race ! Mrs. Washington also had her dream , which an excellent old Lady of Fredericks . burg assured me she had often heard her relate with great satisfaction ; and , for the last time , but a few weeks before her death . " I ...
... human race ! Mrs. Washington also had her dream , which an excellent old Lady of Fredericks . burg assured me she had often heard her relate with great satisfaction ; and , for the last time , but a few weeks before her death . " I ...
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... of Berks , Pennsylvania . " See here , Colonel , " said the dying count , " see in me the vanity of all human pride ! I have shone in all the courts of Europe ; and 9 * LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 101 soon got on the wing, blew up likewise, ...
... of Berks , Pennsylvania . " See here , Colonel , " said the dying count , " see in me the vanity of all human pride ! I have shone in all the courts of Europe ; and 9 * LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 101 soon got on the wing, blew up likewise, ...
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168 ページ - 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. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.
172 ページ - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from. external annoyance; when we may take such an" attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may...
161 ページ - But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest — here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole. 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...
175 ページ - ... the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence ; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations...
162 ページ - While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find, in the united mass of means and efforts, greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a...
171 ページ - ... of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.
166 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.
172 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.
164 ページ - 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.
169 ページ - As a very important source of strength and security cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it...