 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1853 - 258 pages
...the resolution, adopted in Congress upon the receipt of the intelligence of Washington's death : " First in war : first in peace : first in the hearts of his countrymen." On the back of the statue^just above the top of the chair, is placed another inscription in Latin,... | |
 | 1853 - 570 pages
...enthusiasm took half his life to accomplish. On the pedestal ono reads the pithy sentence — •" First in war — first in peace — first in the hearts of his countrymen." and officers of a frigate, killed at Tripoli. They had better have let it alone. The setting of this... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 708 pages
...authority. Let us remount to the Administration of the first President of the United Sutes, the man first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen ! Mr. Hammond was residing at Philadelphia in character of Minister Plenipotentiary from Great Britain.... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1853 - 706 pages
...authority. Let us remount to the Administration of the first President of the United States, the man first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen ! Mr. Hammond was residing at Philadelphia in character of Minister Plenipotentiary from Great Britain.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 410 pages
...first chaplain of the Continental Congress. That honor belongs 10 Rev. Jacob Ihiche. GEORGE WASHINGTON. FIRST IN WAR — FIRST IN PEACE — FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN — was a just sentiment uttered half a century ago by the foster-son1 of the ' Great Patriot, when... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 736 pages
...honored Commonwealth. Yes, fellowcitizens, had this test prevailed in the earlier days, Washington — first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen — could not have been created generalissimo of the American forces ; Jefferson could not have taken... | |
 | Frederic Townsend - Utopias - 1856 - 304 pages
...triumphs, his wise laws, his innumerable benefactions to art and letters, more happily described. ' First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.' Never shall I forget the tone and manner in which these words were uttered, or the modest way in which... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 596 pages
...WASHINGTON. 483 One still living, who when a child saw him often, thus remembers him : — •* " ' First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen,' he was, is, and ever will remain. It is something, it is much, and it will be more, even to have seen... | |
 | United States - 1857 - 498 pages
...military hat had the black cockade. There stood the Father of his Country, acknowledged by nations " the first in war, first in peace first in the hearts of his countrymen." No marshals, with gold-colored scarfs ; no cheering. The most profound stillness greeted him, as if... | |
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First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799. 
