Memoirs of WashingtonD. Appleton & Company, 1857 - 516 Seiten |
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... served the entire region for several generations , were concentrated and absorbed by George Washington , model as he was of promptness and thoroughness in all things , from the greatest to the least . But what a charm hovers over the ...
... served the entire region for several generations , were concentrated and absorbed by George Washington , model as he was of promptness and thoroughness in all things , from the greatest to the least . But what a charm hovers over the ...
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... served with him in the West Indies , were occasional visitors at Mount Vernon ; or a ship of war , possibly one of Vernon's old fleet , would anchor in the Potomac , and its officers would be welcome guests at the table of Lawrence and ...
... served with him in the West Indies , were occasional visitors at Mount Vernon ; or a ship of war , possibly one of Vernon's old fleet , would anchor in the Potomac , and its officers would be welcome guests at the table of Lawrence and ...
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... served in both the East and West Indies , and had also held the position of governor of New Providence ; and Lord Fairfax , an Oxford scholar who had run a fashionable course in London , were both men of mark and discernment , as well ...
... served in both the East and West Indies , and had also held the position of governor of New Providence ; and Lord Fairfax , an Oxford scholar who had run a fashionable course in London , were both men of mark and discernment , as well ...
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... ? Who can say ? One of the incidental advantages of Washington's visits at Mount Vernon , was the training in military ex- ercises which he there received , from an old adjutant named Muse , who had served with Lawrence before Carthagena.
... ? Who can say ? One of the incidental advantages of Washington's visits at Mount Vernon , was the training in military ex- ercises which he there received , from an old adjutant named Muse , who had served with Lawrence before Carthagena.
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... served as his interpre- ter , we have before us what seems almost a whole chapter of express preparation for the remarkable career he was destined for . In daily communication with gallant gentlemen who had served , and who re- tained a ...
... served as his interpre- ter , we have before us what seems almost a whole chapter of express preparation for the remarkable career he was destined for . In daily communication with gallant gentlemen who had served , and who re- tained a ...
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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.