| American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...by whose valour and skill the remnant of Braddock's army was saved. "I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner, for some important service to his country." Davies expired in the thirty -sixth year of his age, and owed his dissolution to an awkward bleeder.... | |
| Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...Washington : " As a remarkable instance of this, 1 may point out to the public that heroic youth Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...manner, for some important service to his country." Sec 1751. 3 Pcter-Francia-Xavicr de Charlevoix was of the Society of Jesuits, and was much esteemed... | |
| Amos Blanchard - Military biography - 1831 - 634 pages
...expressed himself "as a remarkable instance of patriotism, I may point out to the public that lieroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope...manner for some important service to his country." For this purpose he was indeed preserved, and at the end of twenty years he began to rrnder his country... | |
| Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved, in so signal a manner, ior some important service to his country." General Braddock...save their wounded commander from the hatchet and the scalping knife of the Indians. They conveyed him with tenderness and speed towards that part of his... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...related in future annals, it will meet with unbelief and indignation, for had I not been witness to heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but...manner for some important service to his country." ••••--, .«* • . J> fr /*, . '/ijiHHiH,/ ,'f/t. . 'f,/K, .II'LY^"; I7.M. ' 7Ai fir/* ./'/*i•... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...related in future annals, it will meet with unbelief and indignation, for had I not been witness to heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but...manner for some important service to his country." This prophetic passage may at least serve as an evidence of the elevated standing, to which Washington... | |
| United States - 1834 - 426 pages
...remarkable instance of patriotism, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, colonel \Vashington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved...manner, for some important service to his country." For this purpose he was indeed preserved, and at the end of twenty years, he began to render to his... | |
| Obadiah Rich - America - 1835 - 546 pages
...London . . . Philadelphia. 8vo. pp. 38. At pp. 12, speaks of " that heroic youth Colonel Washington, who I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved...manner, for some important service to his country." 25 A LETTER from a gentleman in London to his friend in Pennsylvania ; with a satire ; containing some... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...this memorable language : — ' As a remarkable instance of patriotism, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner, for some important service to his country.' The entire completion of this extraordinary prediction was. of course, reserved for a future day ;... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 650 pages
...Virginia troops, the preacher added ; " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner for some important service to his country." This was but the echo of the general voice, and it is a proof of the high estimation in which the character... | |
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