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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... night comes for him to lie down : and his mother sings , and the little crickets chirp him to sleep ! and as soon as he has slept enough , and jumps up fresh and strong as a little buck , there the sweet golden light is ready for him ...
... night comes for him to lie down : and his mother sings , and the little crickets chirp him to sleep ! and as soon as he has slept enough , and jumps up fresh and strong as a little buck , there the sweet golden light is ready for him ...
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... nights , till bed- time . The Crawfords and Stinsons , though not taller than George , were much heavier men ; so that at wrestling , and particularly at the close or Indian hug , he seldom gained much matter of triumph . But in all ...
... nights , till bed- time . The Crawfords and Stinsons , though not taller than George , were much heavier men ; so that at wrestling , and particularly at the close or Indian hug , he seldom gained much matter of triumph . But in all ...
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... night , which was spent in preparing his letters and instructions . The next day , accompanied by an interpreter and a couple of servants , he set out on his journey , which , being in the depth of winter , was as disagreeable and ...
... night , which was spent in preparing his letters and instructions . The next day , accompanied by an interpreter and a couple of servants , he set out on his journey , which , being in the depth of winter , was as disagreeable and ...
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... night following , of perishing in the ice ; but from both these imminent deadly risks , there was a hand unseen that effected his escape . About the middle of January he returned to Wil- liamsburgh ; and , instantly waiting on the ...
... night following , of perishing in the ice ; but from both these imminent deadly risks , there was a hand unseen that effected his escape . About the middle of January he returned to Wil- liamsburgh ; and , instantly waiting on the ...
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... night , that when the enemy attacked , which they did with 1500 men , Washington had but 300 to stand by him . But never did the true Virginia valour shine more gloriously than on this trying occasion to see 300 young fellows ...
... night , that when the enemy attacked , which they did with 1500 men , Washington had but 300 to stand by him . But never did the true Virginia valour shine more gloriously than on this trying occasion to see 300 young fellows ...
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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...