...honourable civil avocations, and one of the most remarkable events recorded in history, obliged him to act a conspicuous part on the great theatre of the world. The American revo* Mrs. Washington was born in the year 1732. lutlon originated in the errors of a...

...Mount Vernon. But the time was approaching when Washington was to relinquish the happiness of his home to act a conspicuous part on the great theatre of the world. For more than ten years had the colonies and their mother country been at variance from causes of usurpation...