 | John Gilmary Shea - Adventure and adventurers - 1875 - 576 pages
....should be appointed " to devise the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." The Senate addressed a letter to the President, to which President Adams replied in a touching eulogy... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 512 pages
...experience which is my lot. Yes, fellow-citizens, 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 his... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 592 pages
...Washington, and also under a clock with a bronze statue of him, I once saw in America — " First in in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." PAL HENKY INCH (4th S. ix. 75.) — -The information required is given at pp. 13-29, vol. i. of Conolly's... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Abolitionists - 1874 - 644 pages
...has been my lot. Yes. fellow-citizens, 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... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 pages
...the humblest citizen, may all be summed up in that grand apotheosis of eulogy, namely, that he was " FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF His COUNTRYMEN." It will be of interest, however, in this place, to glance at the estimate of Washington held by some... | |
 | Biography - 1877 - 814 pages
...a man was never more deeply felt or more sincerely mourned than was that of George Washington — " First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." GENERAL LAFAYETTE. ARIE Jean Paul Roch Yoes Gilbert Metier Lafayette, a French Marquis and statesman,... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1921 - 494 pages
...this very city of Philadelphia, who delivered a funeral elegy on Washington in which he called him "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." I may add here that there was no kin between Charles Lee and the Lees of Virginia,... | |
 | Charles William Adam Tait - Great Britain - 1878 - 236 pages
...Independence. 1775—1782. Pp. 754—758. a George Washington commander of the colonial army. " The man first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow-countrymen." b The battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775, and siege of Boston by the colonists.... | |
 | Mark Sibley Severance - College stories - 1878 - 538 pages
...known. " Of course I am ! " said Goldie, the provoker. " You never knew a fellow like me before, — first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his country's cousins ! " "I'm sorry for the cousins," said Ellen, with mock gravity. " But, George dear,... | |
 | William Banks Slaughter - Statesmen - 1878 - 318 pages
...appointed Chief Justice of the United States. They express the public sorrow at the loss of him who was " first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens." This expression is repeated in the funeral oration pronounced by Gen. Lee at the... | |
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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. 
