 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons - 1885 - 390 pages
...o'er-rushing cloud, And dashed the beauteous terror on the ground, Smiling majestic ;" the other, he who, "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," has been called by an English writer " the greatest of good men, and the best of great men," and of... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons - 1886 - 392 pages
...o'er-rushing cloud, And dashed the beauteous terror on the ground, Smiling majestic ; " the other, he who, "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," has been called by an English writer "the greatest of good men, and the best of great men," and of... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - United States - 2007 - 196 pages
...statesman, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, first president of these United States of America. "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. " Hero of the 1755 Battle of Monogahela (French & Indian Wars), George Washington served in the historic... | |
 | James R. Dowling - Health & Fitness - 1995 - 206 pages
...Unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of [happiness]." 5. Washington: "First in war, first in peace, First in the hearts of his [countrymen]." 6. "'Shoot if you must this old gray head, But spare your country's flag!' she [said]." 7. "From the... | |
 | Marc J. Seifer - Electric engineers - 1996 - 578 pages
...interpreting FDR as having a "messianic complex" and Hitler as "a dynamic genius, and a poet of passion ... first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his country-men." Viereck was arrested and indicted on two counts of seditious conspiracy. It was quickly established... | |
 | David Lowenthal - History - 1998 - 362 pages
...first-comers Darwin, Bell, and Ford alone got the kudos. Metaphors of priority pervade patriotic maxims. "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen" was Washington's archetypal accolade. Where you originally come from, says Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 788 pages
...of words he paid tribute to Washington's service to the nation, concluding with the famous refrain: First in war, First in peace, First in the hearts of his countrymen.122 *Washington died of acute tonsillitis at Mount Vernon during the evening of December... | |
 | Pete Seeger, Paul Du Bois Jacobs - Folklore - 2001 - 290 pages
...dedicated to America's fledgling democracy than to making himse!/a king. This is why he was so loved. "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. " How many times in history has a general overthrown the establishment and then refused to assume absolute... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 416 pages
...appointed by Congress to deliver an address in commemoration of Washington, uttered the famous phrase, "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." His son, Robert Edward Lee, was destined to become perhaps the greatest general in our history. So... | |
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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. 
