Lives of the Presidents of the United States: With Biographical Notices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events in the History of the Country, from Its Discovery to the Present Time; and a General View of Its Present ConditionN. Watson & Company, 1836 - 508 страници |
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... hardly twenty - one , he was employed by the government of his native colony in an enterprise of very considerable importance . The French were the first European discoverers of the Mississippi 1 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS • George Washington.
... hardly twenty - one , he was employed by the government of his native colony in an enterprise of very considerable importance . The French were the first European discoverers of the Mississippi 1 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS • George Washington.
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... considerable force . The assailants were protected by trees and high grass . The Americans received them with great intrepidity , and Washington distin- guished himself by his coolness and address . The engagement continued from ten in ...
... considerable force . The assailants were protected by trees and high grass . The Americans received them with great intrepidity , and Washington distin- guished himself by his coolness and address . The engagement continued from ten in ...
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... considerable number of those enlisted in the southern states were foreigners . To encourage their desertion , General Howe offered a bounty to every soldier who would come over to his army ; and , to counteract this measure , Washington ...
... considerable number of those enlisted in the southern states were foreigners . To encourage their desertion , General Howe offered a bounty to every soldier who would come over to his army ; and , to counteract this measure , Washington ...
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... considerable number of British troops having been despatched to destroy these works , it was thought a favorable time to attack their main body . The American forces now amounted to about eight thousand regular troops and three thousand ...
... considerable number of British troops having been despatched to destroy these works , it was thought a favorable time to attack their main body . The American forces now amounted to about eight thousand regular troops and three thousand ...
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... considerable effect on a mind less firm and resolute than that of Washington . He took no further notice of the letter , than merely to send a verbal message to the writer , " that if the contents of his letter had been known , it ...
... considerable effect on a mind less firm and resolute than that of Washington . He took no further notice of the letter , than merely to send a verbal message to the writer , " that if the contents of his letter had been known , it ...
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Страница 123 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Страница 60 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Страница 106 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Страница 80 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Страница 61 - This, government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Страница 50 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Страница 82 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost...
Страница 107 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Страница 94 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Страница 94 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech shock and disgust men when their own lives and the fate of their wives, their children and their country hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain and all elaborate oratory contemptible.