The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Comp. Under the Inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington, from Original Papers ...J. Crissy, 1832 |
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Strana 16
... mind of so much fertility of invention and military resource , as to add greatly to his previous reputation as a partisan . The whole army had exhibited a degree of activity , courage , and pa- tient suffering , surpassing any ...
... mind of so much fertility of invention and military resource , as to add greatly to his previous reputation as a partisan . The whole army had exhibited a degree of activity , courage , and pa- tient suffering , surpassing any ...
Strana 37
... mind . No small addition to the regrets occasioned by his loss was derived from the reflection that he fell unnecessarily , in an unimportant skirmish , in the last moments of the war , when his rash exposure to the danger which proved ...
... mind . No small addition to the regrets occasioned by his loss was derived from the reflection that he fell unnecessarily , in an unimportant skirmish , in the last moments of the war , when his rash exposure to the danger which proved ...
Strana 46
... mind , to use dif- ferent means to attain the same end , the author of the address should have had more charity , than to mark for suspicion the man who should recommend moderation and longer forbearance ; or , in other words , who ...
... mind , to use dif- ferent means to attain the same end , the author of the address should have had more charity , than to mark for suspicion the man who should recommend moderation and longer forbearance ; or , in other words , who ...
Strana 47
... suppose you stood in need of them . A moment's reflection will convince every dispassionate mind of the physical impossibility of carrying either pro- ו posal into execution . There might , gentlemen , be GEORGE WASHINGTON . 47.
... suppose you stood in need of them . A moment's reflection will convince every dispassionate mind of the physical impossibility of carrying either pro- ו posal into execution . There might , gentlemen , be GEORGE WASHINGTON . 47.
Strana 60
... the benignant influence of mild and equal laws , he might taste that felicity which is the reward of a mind at peace with itself , and conscious of its own purity . CHAPTER III . General Washington devotes his time to rural 60 THE LIFE OF.
... the benignant influence of mild and equal laws , he might taste that felicity which is the reward of a mind at peace with itself , and conscious of its own purity . CHAPTER III . General Washington devotes his time to rural 60 THE LIFE OF.
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