The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United StatesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1853 - Presidents |
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... engaged in useful industry ; and for several years of his minority , employed as a county surveyor . In this employment he distinguished himself by his diligence , and by the neatness and accuracy of his plans . His experience in this ...
... engaged in useful industry ; and for several years of his minority , employed as a county surveyor . In this employment he distinguished himself by his diligence , and by the neatness and accuracy of his plans . His experience in this ...
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... engaged , developed his character , and his reputation rose by every publick trust with which he was invested . He now received a commission ap- pointing him Colonel of this regiment , and Commander in Chief of all the forces raised ...
... engaged , developed his character , and his reputation rose by every publick trust with which he was invested . He now received a commission ap- pointing him Colonel of this regiment , and Commander in Chief of all the forces raised ...
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... and he discountenanced the scheme . The attempt was , however , eventually made by a few indiscreet individuals , but it failed , and in VOL . I. 5 volveu the inhabitants of Nova Scotia , who engaged in 75.1 LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 49.
... and he discountenanced the scheme . The attempt was , however , eventually made by a few indiscreet individuals , but it failed , and in VOL . I. 5 volveu the inhabitants of Nova Scotia , who engaged in 75.1 LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 49.
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... engaged in it , in the predicted ruin . Some of the American cruisers , acting without pub- lick orders , brought three of the principal inhabitants of the Island of St. John into General WASHINGTON'S camp ; he treated them with the ...
... engaged in it , in the predicted ruin . Some of the American cruisers , acting without pub- lick orders , brought three of the principal inhabitants of the Island of St. John into General WASHINGTON'S camp ; he treated them with the ...
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... engaged to the last of De- cember , 1776 , unless sooner discharged by Congress . The period of patriotick enthusiasm had , in some measure , passed away ; numbers of officers consented conditionally to remain in the army , and many ...
... engaged to the last of De- cember , 1776 , unless sooner discharged by Congress . The period of patriotick enthusiasm had , in some measure , passed away ; numbers of officers consented conditionally to remain in the army , and many ...
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Page 182 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 174 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest,...
Page 184 - Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?
Page 175 - The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand.
Page 173 - ... the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by .so careful a preservation and so prudent a 'use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
Page 186 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 180 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. THIS spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
Page 178 - Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
Page 173 - ... agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging — in situations in which not unfrequently want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism — the constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts, and a guarantee of the plans, by which they were effected.
Page 178 - To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management...