The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States, 2권Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852 |
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... army , bring the war to a close . The fol- lowing extracts from a letter , addressed by Washington to General Knox , show the views of the Commanders of the American and French allied armies , in entering upon the campaign of 1781 ...
... army , bring the war to a close . The fol- lowing extracts from a letter , addressed by Washington to General Knox , show the views of the Commanders of the American and French allied armies , in entering upon the campaign of 1781 ...
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... army . On the 1st March , Washington writes to Lafayette , thus : " MY DEAR MARQUIS , -I have just received letters from the Count de Rochambeau , and the Chevalier Destouches , informing me of their intention to operate in the ...
... army . On the 1st March , Washington writes to Lafayette , thus : " MY DEAR MARQUIS , -I have just received letters from the Count de Rochambeau , and the Chevalier Destouches , informing me of their intention to operate in the ...
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... remember , that your corps is a part of this army , and will let this idea have proper weight in your determinations . I am , & c . " The interview between Washington and the French commanders at Newport LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 11.
... remember , that your corps is a part of this army , and will let this idea have proper weight in your determinations . I am , & c . " The interview between Washington and the French commanders at Newport LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 11.
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... army , who walked next . But the resplendent beauty of the two Viomenils eclipsed all the rest . They were brothers , and one of them a general in the army , who bore the title of Count too . Newport never saw any thing so handsome as ...
... army , who walked next . But the resplendent beauty of the two Viomenils eclipsed all the rest . They were brothers , and one of them a general in the army , who bore the title of Count too . Newport never saw any thing so handsome as ...
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... army , cannot be kept together this cam- paign ; much less will it be increased , and in readiness for another . " We are at this hour suspended in the balance ; not from choice , but from hard and absolute necessity ; and you may rely ...
... army , cannot be kept together this cam- paign ; much less will it be increased , and in readiness for another . " We are at this hour suspended in the balance ; not from choice , but from hard and absolute necessity ; and you may rely ...
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320 페이지 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved...
337 페이지 - I shall also carry with me 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...
320 페이지 - In the discharge of this trust I will only say, that I have with good intentions contributed towards the organization and administration of the government, the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience, in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
122 페이지 - I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life with a heartfelt satisfaction.
316 페이지 - Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state ? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best— The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but One !
330 페이지 - 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.
140 페이지 - What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing. I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking ; thence to acting is often but a single step.
372 페이지 - Item I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government...
140 페이지 - We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
166 페이지 - ... day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years...