Memoirs of WashingtonD. Appleton & Company, 1857 - 516 Seiten |
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... River , 279 CHAPTER XXVI . Discouragement of the army - General Howe threatens New York - Talk of burning the city - Washington fortifies Harlem - Cowardice of some of the troops there- Retreat to White Plains - Illiterate officers ...
... River , 279 CHAPTER XXVI . Discouragement of the army - General Howe threatens New York - Talk of burning the city - Washington fortifies Harlem - Cowardice of some of the troops there- Retreat to White Plains - Illiterate officers ...
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... rivers . John took up his residence at Bridge's Creek , married Ann Pope , and became a prosperous planter . He commanded the troops raised by Virginia and Ma- ryland to repel the intrusions of certain Indian tribes , and was a good and ...
... rivers . John took up his residence at Bridge's Creek , married Ann Pope , and became a prosperous planter . He commanded the troops raised by Virginia and Ma- ryland to repel the intrusions of certain Indian tribes , and was a good and ...
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... river , beloved by him to the last day of his life , and whose every wave is glorified by indelible association with his memory . No por- tents marked the day , which was probably as cold as Greenland , for February has its sharp bite ...
... river , beloved by him to the last day of his life , and whose every wave is glorified by indelible association with his memory . No por- tents marked the day , which was probably as cold as Greenland , for February has its sharp bite ...
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... river I ever saw ; indeed it can be excelled by no other river in the uni- Its entrance into the Chesapeake is near a hundred miles from the Atlantic . It is navigable for the largest ships as far as Alexandria and even to George Town ...
... river I ever saw ; indeed it can be excelled by no other river in the uni- Its entrance into the Chesapeake is near a hundred miles from the Atlantic . It is navigable for the largest ships as far as Alexandria and even to George Town ...
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... River , opposite Fredericksburg , a small town , situated about a mile and a half below the Falls on that river . The same plain style of living continued , and George , now old enough to go to school , was sent to a schoolmaster ...
... River , opposite Fredericksburg , a small town , situated about a mile and a half below the Falls on that river . The same plain style of living continued , and George , now old enough to go to school , was sent to a schoolmaster ...
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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 440 - 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 440 - 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 410 - 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 332 - 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 400 - 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.