 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1850 - 628 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 Ihe foregoing sermon, was from 2d Saml. x. 12. "Be of good courage, and let us... | |
 | HON. J. Y. HEADLEY - 1860 - 502 pages
...sermon, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but Jiope 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 Washington Parke Custis - Generals - 1860 - 670 pages
...Washington on the bloody field of Monongahela, " I can not but hope Providence has hitherto preserved him in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." It is an interesting faet, thut Washington never reccived the slightest wound in battle. their blankets,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 788 pages
...said, in allusion to Colonel Washington, " I can not but hope Providence has hitherto preserved him in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." Washington was never wounded in battle. И. S PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK Movement» of Forbee. Defeat of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 794 pages
...said, in allusion to Colonel Washington, '• I can not but hope Providence has hitherto preserved him in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country.'* Washington was never wounded in buttle. u: s MoremcnUofForbce. DcW of Grant Attack on Bouquet. Abandonment... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pages
...zeal and courage, went on to say, " As a remarkable instance of this, I may |,oint out, to the public, that heroic youth, Colonel Washington ; whom, I cannot...manner, for some important service, to his country." It is now, 1774. The nineteen years from the battle of the Monongahela, have been passed, in domestic... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 688 pages
...encouraging new recruits for the service, in words since that time often pronounced prophetic, "to that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner for some important service to his country." One lesson of this campaign was deeply impressed upon the mind of Washington, the disobedience, disorder... | |
 | François Guizot - United States - 1863 - 162 pages
...courage of the Virginians, exclaimed, " As a remarkable instance of this, I many point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner for some important service to his country."^ It is also related, that fifteen years afterwards, in a journey which Washington made to the West,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 874 pages
...he adds : u As a remarkable instance of this, I may point put to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...manner for some important service to his country." A seal of Washington with his initials, probably shot away from his person, was found after a lapse... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 898 pages
...a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washin gti Hi, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved...manner for some important service to his country." A seal of Washington with his initials, probably shot away from his person, was found after a lapse... | |
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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. 
