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 44
... saying , " Come soon , or we are lost , and shall never meet again . I speak it in the grief of my heart . " Washington immediately ordered the troops under arms , and pushed forward . Without tents , scantily supplied with clothes and ...
... saying , " Come soon , or we are lost , and shall never meet again . I speak it in the grief of my heart . " Washington immediately ordered the troops under arms , and pushed forward . Without tents , scantily supplied with clothes and ...
Page 45
... saying , “ Be on your guard ; the French army intend to strike the first Eng- lish whom they shall see . " The same day a second mes- senger entered the camp , reporting that the French were but eighteen miles distant . Ignorant of ...
... saying , “ Be on your guard ; the French army intend to strike the first Eng- lish whom they shall see . " The same day a second mes- senger entered the camp , reporting that the French were but eighteen miles distant . Ignorant of ...
Page 53
... saying that the enemy , nine hundred strong , was only four miles dis- tant . This was stirring news , and Washington immediately drew up his little band of four hundred outside the trenches , and gave the orders not to fire till the ...
... saying that the enemy , nine hundred strong , was only four miles dis- tant . This was stirring news , and Washington immediately drew up his little band of four hundred outside the trenches , and gave the orders not to fire till the ...
Page 55
... saying , " If you think me capable of holding a commission that has neither rank nor emolument annexed to it , you must entertain a very contemptible opinion of my weakness , and believe me to be more empty than the commission itself ...
... saying , " If you think me capable of holding a commission that has neither rank nor emolument annexed to it , you must entertain a very contemptible opinion of my weakness , and believe me to be more empty than the commission itself ...
Page 60
... saying , " We shall better know how to deal with them another time . " But he had done with all future time , and was already entering that calm world where the sound of battle never comes . The litter on which he lay was set down , and ...
... saying , " We shall better know how to deal with them another time . " But he had done with all future time , and was already entering that calm world where the sound of battle never comes . The litter on which he lay was set down , and ...
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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.