Washington and His Country: Being Irving's Life of Washington, Abridged for the Use of Schools, with Introduction and Continuation, Giving a Brief Outline of United States History from the Discovery of America to the End of the Civil War |
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... order to found a state in which everything might be cut and dried in accordance with the notions which they held as ... ordered to return to England . He escaped to the woods and passed a winter with the Indians about Narragansett Bay ...
... order to found a state in which everything might be cut and dried in accordance with the notions which they held as ... ordered to return to England . He escaped to the woods and passed a winter with the Indians about Narragansett Bay ...
Page 86
... order , with bayonets fixed , colors flying , and drums and fifes beat- ing and playing . They accordingly made a ... orders ; but the river bank had not been sufficiently sloped . The artillery and baggage drew up along the beach and ...
... order , with bayonets fixed , colors flying , and drums and fifes beat- ing and playing . They accordingly made a ... orders ; but the river bank had not been sufficiently sloped . The artillery and baggage drew up along the beach and ...
Page 87
... ordered Lieutenant - colonel Burton to hasten to their assistance with the vanguard of the main body , eight hundred ... orders an aide - de - camp spurred forward to bring him an account of the nature of the attack . Without waiting for ...
... ordered Lieutenant - colonel Burton to hasten to their assistance with the vanguard of the main body , eight hundred ... orders an aide - de - camp spurred forward to bring him an account of the nature of the attack . Without waiting for ...
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... ordered his men to fix bayonets and form in order of bat- tle . They did so in hurry and trepidation . He would have ... orders were unheeded ; in their fright they shot at random , killing some of their own flanking parties , and of the ...
... ordered his men to fix bayonets and form in order of bat- tle . They did so in hurry and trepidation . He would have ... orders were unheeded ; in their fright they shot at random , killing some of their own flanking parties , and of the ...
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... orders , but the general stormed at them , called them cowards , and even struck them with the flat of his sword . Several of the Virginians , who had taken post and were doing good service in this manner , were slain by the fire of the ...
... orders , but the general stormed at them , called them cowards , and even struck them with the flat of his sword . Several of the Virginians , who had taken post and were doing good service in this manner , were slain by the fire of the ...
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Page 100 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Page 120 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 521 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law.
Page 494 - That the property of the United States, has been protected from the confiscations of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all. And he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.
Page 148 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ; we must fight ! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
Page 31 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Page 134 - Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 335 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.
Page 96 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 501 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.