Pictorial Life of George Washington: Embracing Anecdotes, Illustrative of His Character. And Embellished with Engravings. For the Young People of the Nation He Founded |
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... determined to bear up some time longer , in the hope of better regulations . " Though disappointed in all his best formed plans , by the obstinacy and ill - nature of the person who had the power to control him , and pained by the ...
... determined to bear up some time longer , in the hope of better regulations . " Though disappointed in all his best formed plans , by the obstinacy and ill - nature of the person who had the power to control him , and pained by the ...
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... determined on returning to it . His health had been injured by his exposure to se- vere cold , and being often , for many days , unshel- tered from the falling rain ; and he felt that he ought to use means to restore it , as he could do ...
... determined on returning to it . His health had been injured by his exposure to se- vere cold , and being often , for many days , unshel- tered from the falling rain ; and he felt that he ought to use means to restore it , as he could do ...
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... determined on making a common cause with Massachusetts , against which a British army had commenced hostilities , they appointed , by an unanimous vote , George Washington , commander - in - chief of all the forces raised or to be ...
... determined on making a common cause with Massachusetts , against which a British army had commenced hostilities , they appointed , by an unanimous vote , George Washington , commander - in - chief of all the forces raised or to be ...
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... determination to sup- port him . He received an address from the Provin- cial Congress of New York , in which , after express- ing their approbation of his elevation to command , they say , " We have the fullest assurances , that ...
... determination to sup- port him . He received an address from the Provin- cial Congress of New York , in which , after express- ing their approbation of his elevation to command , they say , " We have the fullest assurances , that ...
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... determined to watch and subdue it . When any occurrence raised his anger , he resolutely endeavoured to restrain it . He knew that he could not command others so as to have their respect , if by the indulgence of pas- sion he proved ...
... determined to watch and subdue it . When any occurrence raised his anger , he resolutely endeavoured to restrain it . He knew that he could not command others so as to have their respect , if by the indulgence of pas- sion he proved ...
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Page 177 - DESERT the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ; and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 174 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 176 - The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual ; and sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Page 176 - The basis of our political Systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 177 - 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 153 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.
Page 140 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence ; a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task, which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union and the patronage of Heaven.
Page 29 - 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 for some important service to his country.
Page 173 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation...
Page 162 - I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect...