Illustrated Life of WashingtonG. & F. Bill, 1860 - 528 Seiten |
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... Troops - General Heath summons Fort Independence to surrender— Washington issues a counter Proclamation to that of Howe - Illy received in New Jersey - Five additional Major Generals and ten Brigadiers appoint- ed - Inhuman treatment of ...
... Troops - General Heath summons Fort Independence to surrender— Washington issues a counter Proclamation to that of Howe - Illy received in New Jersey - Five additional Major Generals and ten Brigadiers appoint- ed - Inhuman treatment of ...
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... Troops at Egg Harbor - Destitute condition of the Army , and Opinions of Washington as to the result of it - The Army in Winter Quarters - Miserable condition of Congress - Sickness of Lafayette- Washington consults with Congress on the ...
... Troops at Egg Harbor - Destitute condition of the Army , and Opinions of Washington as to the result of it - The Army in Winter Quarters - Miserable condition of Congress - Sickness of Lafayette- Washington consults with Congress on the ...
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... grief of my heart . " Washington immediately ordered the troops under arms , and pushed forward . Without tents , scantily supplied with clothes and provisions , encamping under the open sky , 44 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... grief of my heart . " Washington immediately ordered the troops under arms , and pushed forward . Without tents , scantily supplied with clothes and provisions , encamping under the open sky , 44 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
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... troops , he had lain for days about the fort , and when assailed had made no effort at explanation , but continued to fight till overpowered , it would have been per fectly absurd to pretend that he was on a peaceful mission . Still ...
... troops , he had lain for days about the fort , and when assailed had made no effort at explanation , but continued to fight till overpowered , it would have been per fectly absurd to pretend that he was on a peaceful mission . Still ...
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... troops without arms , ammunition , provisions or tents . Washington told him the thing was absolutely impossible , and the order was countermanded . The Assembly when it met voted twenty thousand pounds for the public service . This ...
... troops without arms , ammunition , provisions or tents . Washington told him the thing was absolutely impossible , and the order was countermanded . The Assembly when it met voted twenty thousand pounds for the public service . This ...
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Seite 487 - Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.
Seite 481 - Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a Country ; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion ; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security...
Seite 481 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterward the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Seite 482 - Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party- But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its...
Seite 483 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any...
Seite 481 - In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Seite 480 - The inhabitants of our western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head; they have seen, in the negotiation by the Executive, and in the unanimous ratification by the Senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event, throughout the United States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them of a policy in the General Government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi...
Seite 484 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded ; and that in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
Seite 482 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government, a real despotism.
Seite 106 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — ("Treason," cried the Speaker — "treason, treason," echoed from every part of the House.