Memoirs of WashingtonD. Appleton & Company, 1857 - 516 Seiten |
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... effect of laisser aller habits in the people . One almost fancies that the energy and determination which might have served the entire region for several generations , were concentrated and absorbed by George Washington , model as he ...
... effect of laisser aller habits in the people . One almost fancies that the energy and determination which might have served the entire region for several generations , were concentrated and absorbed by George Washington , model as he ...
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... effect of his smile in lighting up his face , was often noted in after years . His only sister , Mrs. Lewis , can hardly have been as handsome , for a woman ; at least not as well proportioned ; for we are told that , in after days ...
... effect of his smile in lighting up his face , was often noted in after years . His only sister , Mrs. Lewis , can hardly have been as handsome , for a woman ; at least not as well proportioned ; for we are told that , in after days ...
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... effects of so much writing , it may be questioned whether there was not one bad one . An old proverb says , " He that depends on a paper memory will soon find that he has no other . " One of Washington's pen - habits was to make minutes ...
... effects of so much writing , it may be questioned whether there was not one bad one . An old proverb says , " He that depends on a paper memory will soon find that he has no other . " One of Washington's pen - habits was to make minutes ...
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... effect on the mind of the country , and consequently would not have stood where he now stands in its love and reverence . " To the achievements of his inde- fatigable pen , " says Mr. Irving , " we may trace the 1744. ] IDEAS , RATHER ...
... effect on the mind of the country , and consequently would not have stood where he now stands in its love and reverence . " To the achievements of his inde- fatigable pen , " says Mr. Irving , " we may trace the 1744. ] IDEAS , RATHER ...
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... effect of either , and doubloons and pistoles exercised their usual fascinations , deferring the capitulation of that stout , though susceptible heart , for a good many years . There is the beginning of an acrostic on the beloved name ...
... effect of either , and doubloons and pistoles exercised their usual fascinations , deferring the capitulation of that stout , though susceptible heart , for a good many years . There is the beginning of an acrostic on the beloved name ...
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Seite 309 - 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.
Seite 201 - As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire...
Seite 202 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But, as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Seite 438 - I can only say, that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it.
Seite 438 - 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.
Seite 66 - Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation ; for it is better to be alone, than in bad company.
Seite 408 - 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 in company with Mr.
Seite 65 - Read no letters, books or papers in company; but when there is a necessity for doing it. you must ask leave. Come not near the books or writings of any one so as to read them, unless desired, nor give your opinion of them unasked ; also, look not nigh when another is writing a letter. Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters somewhat grave. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy...
Seite 330 - It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America. I would to God, that some one of the most atrocious in each State was hung in gibbets upon a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin.
Seite 398 - In for a penny in for a pound,' is an old adage. I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck, and sit, like Patience on a monument, -whilst they are delineating the lines of my face.