 | John Hastings Gwathmey - Counties - 1979 - 508 pages
...River Company, expressing the "wish in particular that these great works for its (the Commonwealth's) improvement which, both as springing from the liberty...encouraged by his patronage, will be durable monuments to his glory, may be made monuments also to the gratitude of his country." In October 1785 this act... | |
 | Joseph Stancliffe Davis - Corporations - 2006 - 992 pages
...merits . . . towards his country" "and . . . their wish in particular that those great works for its improvement, which, both as springing from the liberty...monuments also of the gratitude of his country." * The way for the operation of the Potomac Company was further smoothed so far as the states could do it.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1879 - 716 pages
...Washington toward his country ; and it is their wish in particular, that those great works for its improvement, which, both as springing from the liberty...made monuments also of the gratitude of his country." This mark of his countrymen's appreciation, was, of course, grati fying to Washington, but again, true... | |
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It is the desire of the representatives of this commonwealth to embrace every suitable occasion of testifying their sense of the unexampled merits of George Washington towards his country ; and it is their wish in particular, that those great works for... 
