An Essay on the Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War; and the First President of the United StatesThomas & Sturtevant, Sold by Thomas and Andrews, 1807 - 552 páginas |
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... attempts to es- cape .... He capitulates and surrenders his Posts .... Indeci- sive Action between the French and English Fleets .... Sir Henry , too late , embarks his Troops for Yorktown .... Thanks of Congress to the American and ...
... attempts to es- cape .... He capitulates and surrenders his Posts .... Indeci- sive Action between the French and English Fleets .... Sir Henry , too late , embarks his Troops for Yorktown .... Thanks of Congress to the American and ...
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... attempt to control the American Government .... Review of the transactions with France .... The Presi- dent declares his resolution to retire from Publick Life .... Meets Congress for the last Time .... Describes the Let- ters that had ...
... attempt to control the American Government .... Review of the transactions with France .... The Presi- dent declares his resolution to retire from Publick Life .... Meets Congress for the last Time .... Describes the Let- ters that had ...
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... attempted to stop the wild bears of the mountains , or the rivu- lets with our feet ; for they would break by in spite of every effort to prevent it . " The assembly of Virginia was in session , when the gloomy intelligence was received ...
... attempted to stop the wild bears of the mountains , or the rivu- lets with our feet ; for they would break by in spite of every effort to prevent it . " The assembly of Virginia was in session , when the gloomy intelligence was received ...
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... attempt to march the army by this route . " The judgment and advice of Colonel WASH- INGTON in this important measure were overruled , and to his extreme mortification , the new route of the army was adopted . The disappointment and ...
... attempt to march the army by this route . " The judgment and advice of Colonel WASH- INGTON in this important measure were overruled , and to his extreme mortification , the new route of the army was adopted . The disappointment and ...
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... attempted a better organization of the troops . He formed them into three divisions ; the division at Roxbury form- ed the right wing of the army , and was commanded by Gen. Ward ; the division on Prospect and Win- ter Hills , composed ...
... attempted a better organization of the troops . He formed them into three divisions ; the division at Roxbury form- ed the right wing of the army , and was commanded by Gen. Ward ; the division on Prospect and Win- ter Hills , composed ...
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Página 489 - In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
Página 489 - ... 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. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...
Página 485 - Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration.
Página 486 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Página 490 - Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject...
Página 478 - The east. in a like intercourse with the west, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad, or manufactures at home. The west derives from the east supplies requisite to its growth and comfort — and what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions, to the weight, influence,...
Página 479 - Hence likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
Página 476 - ... the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
Página 487 - 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.
Página 370 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...