The Illustrated Life of Washington ...: With Vivid Pen-paintings of Battles and Incidents, Trials and Triumphs of the Heroes and Soldiers of Revolutionary TimesE. Nebhut, 1859 - 508 pages |
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Page xiv
... Points - Governor Tryon's Foray - Successful At- tack of Wayne on Stony Point - Lossing's Accusations refuted - Wretched state of the Currency - Washington's Indignation against Speculators- Count Vergennes ' views of Washington ...
... Points - Governor Tryon's Foray - Successful At- tack of Wayne on Stony Point - Lossing's Accusations refuted - Wretched state of the Currency - Washington's Indignation against Speculators- Count Vergennes ' views of Washington ...
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... point they would attack , he hastened to the Great Meadows , an open plain between two ridges , covered with grass and low bushes . Near the centre , where it was about three hundred yards wide , and beside a rivulet that flowed through ...
... point they would attack , he hastened to the Great Meadows , an open plain between two ridges , covered with grass and low bushes . Near the centre , where it was about three hundred yards wide , and beside a rivulet that flowed through ...
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... point was ren- dered not to attempt building or improvements on the lands belonging to the French king . To this general promise there could be no objection , as no limits were designated . Again , in the written articles the " death of ...
... point was ren- dered not to attempt building or improvements on the lands belonging to the French king . To this general promise there could be no objection , as no limits were designated . Again , in the written articles the " death of ...
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... point out that heroic youth , Colonel Washington , whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved , in so signal a manner , for some im- portant service to his country . " A remarkable prophecy , as thus uttered from the pulpit . " Who ...
... point out that heroic youth , Colonel Washington , whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved , in so signal a manner , for some im- portant service to his country . " A remarkable prophecy , as thus uttered from the pulpit . " Who ...
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... point the petty rivalries and jealousies of officers and the spirit of insubordination had reached in the colo- nies . At Fort Cumberland was stationed a Captain Dag- worthy , who had been put there by Governor Sharpe of Maryland ...
... point the petty rivalries and jealousies of officers and the spirit of insubordination had reached in the colo- nies . At Fort Cumberland was stationed a Captain Dag- worthy , who had been put there by Governor Sharpe of Maryland ...
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Page 487 - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Page 480 - The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same Religion, Manners, Habits and political Principles. — You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together. The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts — of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
Page 488 - ... establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be, from time to time, abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate...
Page 483 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
Page 486 - 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. The nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
Page 503 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 484 - It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms ; kindles the animosity of one part against another ; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Page 484 - 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.
Page 108 - 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.
Page 492 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.