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Strana 12
... close he writes , Prayers and Pains thro ' Faith in Christ Jesus will do any thing ! And being by his Prayers and Pains thus furnished , he set himself in the Year 1646 to preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ , among these ...
... close he writes , Prayers and Pains thro ' Faith in Christ Jesus will do any thing ! And being by his Prayers and Pains thus furnished , he set himself in the Year 1646 to preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ , among these ...
Strana 48
... close of the war he retired to Mt. Vernon , where he took an active interest in the efforts made to strengthen the union of states . He presided over the Convention of 1787 , and was subsequently elected first President under the new ...
... close of the war he retired to Mt. Vernon , where he took an active interest in the efforts made to strengthen the union of states . He presided over the Convention of 1787 , and was subsequently elected first President under the new ...
Strana 59
... close attention to public business . Here I might speak with the more confidence , from my actual observations ; and , if it would not swell this letter ( already too prolix ) beyond the bounds I had prescribed to myself , I could ...
... close attention to public business . Here I might speak with the more confidence , from my actual observations ; and , if it would not swell this letter ( already too prolix ) beyond the bounds I had prescribed to myself , I could ...
Strana 62
... close of the war by a series of patriotic brochures entitled The Crisis . He served for a time as aide - de - camp to General Greene , and in 1777 and 1778 he acted as secretary to the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs . In ...
... close of the war by a series of patriotic brochures entitled The Crisis . He served for a time as aide - de - camp to General Greene , and in 1777 and 1778 he acted as secretary to the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs . In ...
Strana 95
... Close to the falling water , seated on the edge , his back supported by the rock , and his legs hanging over the preci- pice , I now beheld the savage who left the cave before me . The noise of the cascade and the improbability of ...
... Close to the falling water , seated on the edge , his back supported by the rock , and his legs hanging over the preci- pice , I now beheld the savage who left the cave before me . The noise of the cascade and the improbability of ...
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Strana 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Strana 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Strana 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Strana 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Strana 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Strana 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Strana 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Strana 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Strana 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.