| Edward Everett - 1860 - 528 Seiten
...College, in a discourse a few weeks afterwards, before a volunteer company of Hanover county, alluded to " that heroic youth Col. Washington, whom I cannot but...in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." It is doubtful if a mere human prediction, inspired by .early promise, was ever so remarkably... | |
| Edward Everett - 1860 - 392 Seiten
...added, "As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." There is certainly something extraordinary in the brilliant reputation with which Washington,... | |
| L. Contanseau - 1860 - 232 Seiten
...a remarkable instance of this," said he, " I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." 214. There is another tradition also worthy of notice, which rests on the authority of... | |
| Charles Campbell - 1860 - 772 Seiten
...raised in Virginia after Braddock's defeat. In a note appended to this discourse, Davies said: "As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner... | |
| Edward Everett - 1860 - 362 Seiten
...volunteers, after commending the patriotic ardor which had been manifested in the colony, added, "As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner,... | |
| Charles Campbell - 1860 - 766 Seiten
...raised in Virginia after Braddock's defeat. In a note appended to this discourse, Davies said: " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner... | |
| George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 Seiten
...say, " As a remarkable instance of this, I may |,oint out, to the public, that heroic youth, Colonel Washington ; whom, I cannot but hope, Providence has,...so signal a manner, for some important service, to his country." It is now, 1774. The nineteen years from the battle of the Monongahela, have been passed,... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 Seiten
...for the service, in words since that time often pronounced prophetic, "to that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." One lesson of this campaign was deeply impressed upon the mind of Washington, the disobedience,... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 874 Seiten
...which had been manifested in the colony, he adds : u As a remarkable instance of this, I may point put to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington,...in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." A seal of Washington with his initials, probably shot away from his person, was found... | |
| François Guizot - 1863 - 162 Seiten
...exclaimed, " As a remarkable instance of this, I many point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...in so signal a manner for some important service to his country."^ It is also related, that fifteen years afterwards, in a journey which Washington made... | |
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