Pictorial Life of George Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of WashingtonC. J. Gillis, 1847 - 588 pages |
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... thing seems to have depended . on him . The leaders of popular opinion looked to him for advice ; the Congress for direction . While the war was raging he guided every movement , re- PREFACE . 5 pressed all discontent , infused the ...
... thing seems to have depended . on him . The leaders of popular opinion looked to him for advice ; the Congress for direction . While the war was raging he guided every movement , re- PREFACE . 5 pressed all discontent , infused the ...
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... thing like deception . He often talked with him on this subject , and that his lectures were not wasted , but sown on good ground , is evident from the following anecdote , which rests on the same authority as the one recorded above ...
... thing like deception . He often talked with him on this subject , and that his lectures were not wasted , but sown on good ground , is evident from the following anecdote , which rests on the same authority as the one recorded above ...
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... thing was placed in the hands of Mrs. Washington , until her children should respectively become of age . Thus was George Washington , at the early age of eleven years , left to the guardianship of his mother . * Well did Mrs ...
... thing was placed in the hands of Mrs. Washington , until her children should respectively become of age . Thus was George Washington , at the early age of eleven years , left to the guardianship of his mother . * Well did Mrs ...
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... thing of importance ; break no jests that are sharp - biting , and if you deliver any thing that is witty and pleasant , abstain from laughing thereat yourself . " 16. Wherein you reprove another be unblamable yourself , for example is ...
... thing of importance ; break no jests that are sharp - biting , and if you deliver any thing that is witty and pleasant , abstain from laughing thereat yourself . " 16. Wherein you reprove another be unblamable yourself , for example is ...
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... things among grave and learned men ; nor very difficult questions or subjects among the ignorant : nor things hard to be believed . " 24. Be not immodest in urging your friend to discover a secret . 25. Break not a jest where none takes ...
... things among grave and learned men ; nor very difficult questions or subjects among the ignorant : nor things hard to be believed . " 24. Be not immodest in urging your friend to discover a secret . 25. Break not a jest where none takes ...
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Page 586 - ... can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...
Page 578 - ... 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.
Page 579 - 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.
Page 583 - It exists, under different shapes, in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy. The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which, in different ages and countries, has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Page 582 - ... a government for the whole is indispensable. 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. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate union and for the efficacious management of your common concerns.
Page 583 - I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. 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.
Page 581 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties, by geographical discriminations — Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western...
Page 578 - ... has supported me, and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment by services faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise and as an instructive example in our annals that under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead...
Page 504 - I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction, which an ardent love for my country can inspire ; since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...
Page 319 - Sir, a letter which I received last night, contained the following paragraph : — " In a letter from General Conway to General Gates...