The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts, 11권Ferdinand Andrews, 1839 |
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... duty to set it a going under the most favorable auspices . I return Dr. Currie's letter , with thanks for the pe- rusal of it . The picture drawn in it of the state of things in his own country , and the details which he gives of those ...
... duty to set it a going under the most favorable auspices . I return Dr. Currie's letter , with thanks for the pe- rusal of it . The picture drawn in it of the state of things in his own country , and the details which he gives of those ...
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... duties of his station . Any explanations or assistance , which he may require , shall be cordially afforded by me . " After having served my country nearly twenty years , the greatest portion of which under your immediate auspices , it ...
... duties of his station . Any explanations or assistance , which he may require , shall be cordially afforded by me . " After having served my country nearly twenty years , the greatest portion of which under your immediate auspices , it ...
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... duties incident to this appointment ; yet , if con- stant exertions and strict fidelity can compensate for such qualifications as I may not possess , I indulge a hope that my services will receive your approbation . " But whatever may ...
... duties incident to this appointment ; yet , if con- stant exertions and strict fidelity can compensate for such qualifications as I may not possess , I indulge a hope that my services will receive your approbation . " But whatever may ...
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... duty before me . To the high respon- sibility attached to it , I freely submit ; and you , Gentle- men , are at liberty to make these sentiments known as the grounds of my procedure . While I feel the most lively gratitude for the many ...
... duty before me . To the high respon- sibility attached to it , I freely submit ; and you , Gentle- men , are at liberty to make these sentiments known as the grounds of my procedure . While I feel the most lively gratitude for the many ...
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... duty . I view the opposition , which the treaty is receiving from the meetings in different parts of the Union , in a very serious light ; not because there is more weight in any of the objections , which are made to it , than was ...
... duty . I view the opposition , which the treaty is receiving from the meetings in different parts of the Union , in a very serious light ; not because there is more weight in any of the objections , which are made to it , than was ...
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accept acquainted administration affectionate agreeable ALEXANDER HAMILTON answer appear appointment army arrangement assure believe Britain character CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY circumstances Colonel command commander-in-chief communicated conceive conduct Congress consideration considered DEAR SIR declaration delay desire disposition doubt duty EDMUND RANDOLPH effect enclosed esteem and regard executive expected express favor France French Directory French government gentleman give Hamilton HENRY KNOX honor hope instant JAMES MCHENRY John Langhorne July Knox Lafayette letter liberty Madame de Lafayette major-generals matters measure ment military mind minister motives Mount Vernon nation necessary object occasion officers Olmutz opinion peace person Philadelphia Pinckney political present President principles proper rank ratification reasons received regiments relative render request require respect Secretary Secretary of War Senate sentiments sincere situation South Carolina thing TIMOTHY PICKERING tion treaty troops ultimo United Virginia Washington wish
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153 페이지 - an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
115 페이지 - House a copy of the instructions to the minister of the United States who negotiated the treaty with the King of Great Britain, together with the correspondence and other documents relative to that treaty, excepting such of the said papers as any existing negotiation may render improper to be disclosed.
470 페이지 - The establishment of an Institution of this kind, upon a respectable and extensive Basis, has ever been considered by me as an object of primary importance to this Country; and while I was in the Chair of Government, I omitted no proper opportunity of recommending it, in my public speeches and other ways, to the attention of the Legislature.
3 페이지 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare ; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government...
9 페이지 - I cannot suffer you," replies Washington, " to close your public service, without uniting with the satisfaction which must arise in your own mind from a conscious rectitude, my most perfect persuasion that you have deserved well of your country. "My personal knowledge of your exertions, whilst it authorizes me to hold this language, justifies the sincere friendship which I have ever borne for you, and which will accompany you in every situation of life ; being, with affectionate regard, always yours,
263 페이지 - I have finally determined to accept the commission 'of Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States ; with the reserve only that I shall not be called into the field until the Army is in a situation to require my presence, or it becomes indispensable by the urgency of circumstances.
480 페이지 - Your confidence in me, sir, has been unlimited, and I can truly affirm unabused. My sensations, then, cannot be concealed, when I find that confidence so suddenly withdrawn, without a word or distant hint being previously dropped to me. This, sir, as I mentioned in your room, is a situation in which I cannot hold my present office, and therefore I hereby resign it.
83 페이지 - I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced, we act for ourselves, and not for others.
203 페이지 - I begin my diurnal course with the sun ; that, if my hirelings are not in their places at that time I send them messages of sorrow for their indisposition ; that, having put these wheels in motion, I examine the state of things further; that, the more they are probed, the deeper I find the wounds, which my buildings have sustained by an absence and neglect of eight years...
262 페이지 - The conduct of the Directory of France towards our country; their insidious hostility to its government; their various practices to withdraw the affections of the people from it; the evident tendency of their...