 | John Quincy Adams - Presidents - 1825 - 32 pages
...him in such high and bold relief before his country as to unite all voices—if there be one who is first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen; then the people will, under the proposed system, have an opportunity to pay homage to his... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 512 pages
...order along the whole length of each side. As we approached the natural monument of him who was '' first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," the music ceased, and we could not help fancying ourselves in the vaulted resting-place... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Arboriculture - 1835 - 1326 pages
...( Three Уеагя, £rc., vol. ip 363.) 1481. Mount Vernon teas the к at of General Washington, " first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." This noble residence is situated on the banks of the Potomac ; a magnificent river, which... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - Biography - 1839 - 348 pages
...the " Pater patriae" to be graven on his statue: he, if any one, was worthy of the golden praise, " First in peace, First in war, and First in the hearts of his countrymen." The home government of Washington was eminently one not of force but of persuasion ; like... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 510 pages
...order along the whole length of each side. As we approached the natural monument of him who was '' first in peace, first In war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," the music ceased, and we could not help fancying ourselves in the vaulted resting-place... | |
 | George Drought Warburton, Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - Canada - 1846 - 728 pages
...Democratic. In Washington was embodied one, in Jefferson the other. Washington stands among Americans " first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Jefferson was his treacherous enemy. Jefferson disclaimed alike reverence for the past... | |
 | Agriculture - 1846 - 390 pages
...nurseries may now be found at Baltimore. Mount Vernon, on the Potomac, \vas the seat of Gen. Washington, " first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." The extent of this place is about ten thousand acres, much of which is yet covered with... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1846 - 384 pages
...Democratic. In Washington was embodied one, in Jefferson the other. Washington stands among Americans " first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Jefferson was his treacherous enemy. Jefferson disclaimed alike reverence for the past... | |
 | Political satire - 1848 - 408 pages
...just now,) and by a simple process of fancy transmute them into the veritable breeches of him who was first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. The Doctor, however, was — as he always is — conscientious. He was aware, he said,... | |
 | Edward Hazen Parker - Medicine - 1851 - 694 pages
...and institutions of the country in rendering their profound reverence to the memory of him who was " first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen :" Ba it therefore resolved, That a committee of five be appointed, whose duty it shall... | |
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