 | David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...the senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honour to the memory of the MAN,, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." The senate of the United States, on this event, addressed the president in these words: 1 1 " The "... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1824 - 434 pages
...orations were delivered, and the best talents devoted to an expression of grief, at the loss of '' the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." Section VII. In 1800, agreeably to a resolution passed in congress in 1 790, the seat of government... | |
 | United States - 1825 - 472 pages
...fourteenth of December, 1799, j in the sixty-eighth year of his age, died" the father of his country, ' The man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.' This event spread a gloom over the country ; and the tears of America proclaimed the services and virtues... | |
 | John Warner Barber - United States - 1828 - 280 pages
...Funeral orations were delivered, and the best talents devoted to an expression of grief, at the loss of " the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellowcitizens." — Goodrich's Hist. U. States. (96.) Dr. Franklin's experiments in Electricity. In the summer of 1... | |
 | Statesmen - 1829 - 432 pages
...on the 14th of December, 1799, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, died the father of his country," the man first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." This event spread a gloom over the country, and the tears of America proclaimed the services and virtues... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...the Senate, be appointed, to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honour to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." The Senate addressed a letter to the president, in which they said, "Permit us, sir, to mingle our... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...in them has been often quoted and admired.— ED. 6* able manner of paying honour to the memory of the Man first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." The Lessons of Death. — NORTON WHEN such men are taken from us, we are made to feel the instability... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 608 pages
...Funeral orations were delivered, and the best talents devoted to an expression of grief, at the loss of "the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." Sec. 7. In 1800, agreeably to a resolution passed in congress in 1790, the seat of government was transferred... | |
 | United States - 1834 - 426 pages
...on the 14th of December, 1799, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, died the father of his country," the man first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." This event spread a gloom over the country, and the tears of America proclaimed the services and virtues... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...Senate, should be appointed "to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." The Senate testified their respect and sorrow by similar proceedings. A joint committee of the two... | |
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Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens. 
