 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...me was such, that I shall ever revere his name. Before he died, general Washington VOL. V. NO. XxZs himself, with his own hands, closed his eyes and mouth....he would injure the negro. Cowards only act cruelly io those beneath them. There was an instance of his giving encouragement to duelling, which much surprised... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Presidents - 1889 - 420 pages
...lived a great man, and died the same. " I am of opinion that the general never knowingly did anything wrong, but did to all men as he would they should do to him." Evidently he appeared to Mr. Parkinson kindly and generous, as well as exactly just. It is well to... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 420 pages
...lived a great man, and died the same. " I am of opinion that the general never knowingly did anything wrong, but did to all men as he would they should do to hirn." Evidently he appeared to Mr. Parkinson kindly and generous, as well as exactly just. It is well... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - Agriculture - 1805 - 400 pages
...rode into his plantation in the fore part of the day, came home, and died about eleven o'clock at 440 night, of a putrid sore throat, an inflammatory complaint...officers had fought a duel ; and, according to the liws and regulations of the army, one of them was broken : but in four days afterwards the General... | |
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... night, of a putrid sore throat, an inflammatory complaint frequent in America. I conceive it to be occasioned by a poisonous insect received in with the breath. I am of opinion that the General never knowingly did any thing wrong, but did to all men... 