Memoirs of WashingtonD. Appleton & Company, 1857 - 516 Seiten |
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... he wrote on the occasion is so like what our Washing- ton might have written in similar circumstances , that we must take the liberty of copying it from Irving's Life , Vol . I. page 14 . " SIR , -It is acknowledged by your books and.
... he wrote on the occasion is so like what our Washing- ton might have written in similar circumstances , that we must take the liberty of copying it from Irving's Life , Vol . I. page 14 . " SIR , -It is acknowledged by your books and.
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... Washing- ton himself was born there in a house still pointed out . But when tradition goes so far as to show a tree that he planted , we are obliged to demur a little , and find it difficult to extend our faith beyond the probability ...
... Washing- ton himself was born there in a house still pointed out . But when tradition goes so far as to show a tree that he planted , we are obliged to demur a little , and find it difficult to extend our faith beyond the probability ...
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... Wash- ington , came over from England with his brother , in 1657 , and settled in Westmoreland county , Virginia , where both bought lands on the Northern Neck , a tract lying between the Potomac and the Rappahannock rivers . John took ...
... Wash- ington , came over from England with his brother , in 1657 , and settled in Westmoreland county , Virginia , where both bought lands on the Northern Neck , a tract lying between the Potomac and the Rappahannock rivers . John took ...
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... Wash- ington , having little George by the hand , came to the door , and asked my cousin Washington and myself to walk with him to the orchard , promising he would show us a fine sight . On arriving at the orchard , we were presented ...
... Wash- ington , having little George by the hand , came to the door , and asked my cousin Washington and myself to walk with him to the orchard , promising he would show us a fine sight . On arriving at the orchard , we were presented ...
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... Wash- ington was about fifteen years old . " There is , at this day , an old lady at Fredericksburgh who remembers her mother saying that Mrs. Washing- ton often came there to drink tea , riding in what is called in Virginia a " stick ...
... Wash- ington was about fifteen years old . " There is , at this day , an old lady at Fredericksburgh who remembers her mother saying that Mrs. Washing- ton often came there to drink tea , riding in what is called in Virginia a " stick ...
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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.