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 | George Washington - Presidents - 1908 - 500 pages
...conduct. Charities to be Maintained To Lund Washington, Mount Vernon CAMBRIDGE, 26 November, 1775. " Let the hospitality of the house, -with respect to...their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no obj ection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of forty... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1910 - 162 pages
...hospitality of the house in respect to the poor," he says, "be kept up. Let no one go away hungry. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessaries, provided it does not encourage them in idleness, and I have no objection to your giving... | |
 | George Washington - 1911 - 84 pages
...the celebrated letter in regard to the hospitality of Mount Vernon, which we here insert. Says he: "Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to...of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessaries, provided that it does not encourage them to idleness; and I have no objection to you giving... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) - 1915 - 402 pages
...was rendered them by the General's servants. To Lund Washington he wrote from the camp at Cambridge : "Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to...of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessaries, provided that it does not encourage them to idleness; and I have no objection to you giving... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) - 1915 - 416 pages
...was rendered them by the General's servants. To Lund Washington he wrote from the camp at Cambridge : "Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to...of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessaries, provided that it does not encourage them to idleness; and I have no objection to you giving... | |
 | Paul Wilstach - Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) - 1916 - 426 pages
...General wrote Lund Washington from Cambridge, shortly after Mrs. Washington joined him at headquarters: "Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to the poor, be kept up. Let no one go away hungry. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided... | |
 | 1917 - 674 pages
...respect to the poor, be kept up. Let no one go hungry away. If any of this kind of people should be there in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of 40 or... | |
 | William Jackson Johnstone - History - 1919 - 332 pages
...superintendent of his plantations and business agent during the Revolution, giving instructions thus: Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to...their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness, and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity to the amount of forty... | |
 | James Hosmer Penniman - Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) - 1921 - 70 pages
...command of the Army, in 1775, he wrote Lund Washington, who had charge of his affairs at Mount Vernon: "Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to...their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of forty... | |
 | James Hosmer Penniman - Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) - 1921 - 120 pages
...command of the Army, in 1775, he wrote Lund Washington, who had charge of his affairs at Mount Vernon: "Let the hospitality of the house, with respect to...this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply then: necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no objection to your... | |
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