 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 pages
...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, as thus uttered from the pulpit. " Who," said Lord Halifax, in a letter to a... | |
 | george bancropt - 1856 - 496 pages
...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 ?" asked Lord Halifax a few months later. " I know nothing of him," he added,... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 501 pages
...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?" asked Lord Halifax a few months later. " I know nothing of him," he added,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...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?" asked Lord Halifax a few months later. " I know nothing of him," he added,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 pages
...eulogy on the bravery of the Virginia troops — " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner, for some important service to his country." Mr. Irving observes that the public confidence in Washington was the more creditable to the good sense... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 534 pages
...preacher, and appended in a note : " I may point out to the public," said he, " that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...manner, for some important service to his country." How fully that prophecy was fulfilled let all subsequent history prove ; let the thousands who annually... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1857 - 686 pages
...then gives as an episode or note, saying, " I 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." Doct. Davis' text, in the foregoing sermon, was from 2d Saml. x. 12. "Be of good courage, and let us... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1857 - 544 pages
...Washington, whom I cannot but * Sparks. Writings of "Washington, vol. ii., p. 161, not*. hope Providence lias hitherto preserved in so signal a 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... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1858 - 684 pages
...and in a note to which he alludes prophetically to Washington — " That heroic youth," says he, i; Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence...manner, for some important service to his country." On another occasion, he preached a Sermon to the Militia of Hanover County, with a view to raise a... | |
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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. 
