 | Doug Worgul - Barbecuing - 2001 - 144 pages
...perhaps, he felt the need for repentance. There's a phrase often used to describe George Washington; "First in war. First in peace. First in the hearts of his countrymen." Seems he was also first in line at the barbecue table. Perhaps when, as a lad, he chopped down his... | |
 | David McCullough - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 883 pages
...Representative Henry Lee of Virginia — General "Light-Horse Harry" Lee — who extolled Washington as "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." When the service ended after four and a half hours, several hundred people crowded into the President's... | |
 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - Literary Collections - 2001 - 644 pages
...father of Robert E. Lee, said in his eulogy on Washington, 26 December 1799, "To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." In the typescript Chesnutt did not supply Lee's name; instead, he left a blank space between "as" and... | |
 | Benjamin Reiss - History - 2001 - 300 pages
...progress of our government — she is the sole remaining tie of mortality which connects us to him who was 'first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen' — and as such, we should protect and honor her, and not suffer her to be kept for a show, like a... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - History - 2002 - 289 pages
...can do it," as an integral part of the American spirit. He was indispensable, in war and in peace, "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." Abigail Adams, again, so insightful in her descriptions of this or that Founding Father, quoted John... | |
 | Jan Pons Vermeer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 180 pages
...the newspaper served, the president was generally likely to be the topic of discussion in editorials. "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was said of George Washington. To that can be added, for President Clinton in 1994, "first in editorial... | |
 | Let's Go Inc. - Travel - 2003 - 448 pages
...York newspaper with Harry Lee's eulogy of George Washington, in which he used « the famous phrase "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen" to describe the president. A 200-year-old magnolia tree is a fitting centerpiece of the large garden... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 2003 - 642 pages
...did not follow in the footsteps of Caesar and Cromwell. He remained to the end a resolute republican, "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." Webster, Noah (1758-1843), American lawyer, lexicographer, and schoolteacher. He wrote a spelling book,... | |
 | Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...Fathers, a close friend of George Washington. It was he who coined the phrase describing Washington: "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." After the Revolution Harry Lee became a governor and a congressman, but he had no head for money. He... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...controversies in the 1790s."9 Upon his death, the resolutions in the House of Representatives declaring him "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen" were moved by a Federalist, John Marshall, but drafted by a Federalist and a Democratic-Republican,... | |
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First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799. 
