 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 422 pages
...the Virginia troops, he expressed himself in the following memorable and strangely prophetic words. " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out...manner, for some important service to his country." CHAPTER IX. Washington's Services as Commander of the Virginia Troops. COLONEL WASHINGTON was permitted... | |
 | John Pickell - 1856 - 216 pages
...highest pride and satisfaction, paused for a moment, and then, as if moved by inspiration, continued: "I may point out to the public that heroic youth,...manner for some important service to his country." Colonel Washington continued in the military service of the colony until the termination of the campaign... | |
 | English essays - 1856 - 848 pages
...state, and was referred to, in a service held to implore Divine assistance to the Virginian arms, as " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom, I cannot...manner for some important service to his country." The reader scarcely needs to be informed that Mr. Irving's account of this earlier portion of the life... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...Constituents of a Good Soldier," he prophetically " points out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...manner for some important service to his country," and a third addressed to the Militia of Hanover * Dr. JT Stenms's Hist. Discourse relating to the First... | |
 | John Pickell - 1856 - 178 pages
...highest pride and satisfaction, paused for a moment, and then, as if moved by inspiration, continued: "I may point out to the public that heroic youth,...cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved krso signal a manner for some important service to his country." Colonel Washington continued in the... | |
 | Elihu Rich - Biography - 1856 - 1080 pages
...following prophetic remark of Washington : ' I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...so signal a manner, for some important service to Ms country.' DAVIES, ROBERT, a Welch bard and literary savant, author of a Welch Grammar, &e., 1770-1836.... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - Maryland - 1856 - 268 pages
...soldier-like qualities which were exhibited on that memorable occasion by the Virginia troops, he added, " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out...public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I can not but hope Providence has hitherto preserved, in so signal a manner, for some important service... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 pages
...tongue. Said Davis, a distinguished clergyman, in referring to this defeat in a sermon, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved, in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." A remarkable prophecy,... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1856 - 86 pages
...head of the nation ; as Rev. Samuel Davies expressed it, that " Providence has hitherto preserved him in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The same expectation, becoming almost a premonition, has for years been general among the friends of... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...protected." " To the public," said Dovies, a learned divine, in the following month, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." "Who is Mr. Washington?"... | |
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As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country. 
