...From Farm House to the White House: The Life of George WashingtonA biography of George Washington, the general who led the American army in the Revolutionary War and then became the first president of the United States. |
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... Command - Talk with a Friend - Letter to Colonel Corbin - Does not accept Command - Payne knocks Wash- ington down - How the Affair ended- What McGuire says of Washington's Magnanimity - Washington takes up his March― Meeting Captain ...
... Command - Talk with a Friend - Letter to Colonel Corbin - Does not accept Command - Payne knocks Wash- ington down - How the Affair ended- What McGuire says of Washington's Magnanimity - Washington takes up his March― Meeting Captain ...
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... Command on Washington - Retreat - Braddock's Confession - Dies at Fort Necessity - Burial - Horrible Scenes at Duquesne - Testimony of a Prisoner - Words of Wash- ington Letter to his Mother - - - Letter to his Brother . - XIII . ON THE ...
... Command on Washington - Retreat - Braddock's Confession - Dies at Fort Necessity - Burial - Horrible Scenes at Duquesne - Testimony of a Prisoner - Words of Wash- ington Letter to his Mother - - - Letter to his Brother . - XIII . ON THE ...
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... Command- Letter to Mrs. Washington - His Will- Another Letter - Starts- Meets a Courier - His Journey - Legislature - Assumes Com- mand Mrs. Adams ' Opinion― Talk with Gen. Ward - Order and Discipline - Condition of the Army ...
... Command- Letter to Mrs. Washington - His Will- Another Letter - Starts- Meets a Courier - His Journey - Legislature - Assumes Com- mand Mrs. Adams ' Opinion― Talk with Gen. Ward - Order and Discipline - Condition of the Army ...
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... command at Worcester , when that place was stormed , at a time when the king fled from Oxford in disguise and the loyal cause was in peril . He received a letter from General Fairfax , whose vic- ANCESTORS AND BIRTH . 25.
... command at Worcester , when that place was stormed , at a time when the king fled from Oxford in disguise and the loyal cause was in peril . He received a letter from General Fairfax , whose vic- ANCESTORS AND BIRTH . 25.
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... commands for the dis- posal of this garrison . Till then I shall make good the trust reposed in me . As for conditions , if I shall be necessitated , I shall make the best I can . The worst I know , and fear not ; if I had , the profes ...
... commands for the dis- posal of this garrison . Till then I shall make good the trust reposed in me . As for conditions , if I shall be necessitated , I shall make the best I can . The worst I know , and fear not ; if I had , the profes ...
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Page 454 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 456 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Page 460 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ^ so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. (I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.) I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend...
Page 452 - It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Page 448 - Patriotic desire. Is there a doubt, whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere ? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope, that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment. It is well worth a fair and full experiment.
Page 456 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations ; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 450 - ... till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, pre-supposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities,...
Page 449 - To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute. They must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate union and for the efficacious management of...
Page 443 - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Page 448 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, — Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western, — whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.