| Robert Sears - United States - 1854 - 668 pages
...sentence of Davit's where, speaking of that heroic youth, he adds : ' whom I can not lint bone flint Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country' — but even the Indians were persuaded that he wns under the special guardianship of the flreat Spirit... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 638 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 e$timation in which the character... | |
| Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1855 - 566 pages
...youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but * Sparks. Writings of Washington, yoL ii., p. 161, note. hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal...manner for some important service to his country." The expressions of the worthy clergyman may have been deemed enthusiastic at the time ; viewed in connection... | |
| Alexander Jones - Names, Personal - 1855 - 148 pages
...to the then Colonel Washington : — " I cannot but hope, that Providence has hitherto preserved him in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." General Washington, in his family associations, was connected in the tenderest ties of relationship with the... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 422 pages
...memorable and strangely prophetic words. " 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." CHAPTER IX. Washington's Services as Commander of the Virginia Troops. COLONEL WASHINGTON was permitted... | |
| 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... | |
| John Pickell - 1856 - 216 pages
...paused for a moment, and then, as if moved by inspiration, continued: "I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner for some important service to his country." Colonel Washington continued in the military service of the colony until the termination of the campaign... | |
| 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... | |
| 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
...instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I can not but hope Providence has hitherto preserved, in so...manner, for some important service to his country."* How well this prediction was verified, the subsequent history of Washington has shown. In this engagement... | |
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