The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen ... Embellished with Six EngravingsJ. Allen, 1840 - 244 strani |
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Stran 60
... ment , who should freely vote our money for the common cause ? Oh no ! an idea so truly British and honourable , was not at all in their thoughts . We were not to be treated as brothers , but as slaves ! over whom an un - ̧ ̧ ́ ...
... ment , who should freely vote our money for the common cause ? Oh no ! an idea so truly British and honourable , was not at all in their thoughts . We were not to be treated as brothers , but as slaves ! over whom an un - ̧ ̧ ́ ...
Stran 144
... ment , the best exertions of which a very fallible judg ment was capable . Not unconscious , in the outset , of the inferiority of my qualifications , experience in my own eyes , perhaps still more in the eyes of others , has ...
... ment , the best exertions of which a very fallible judg ment was capable . Not unconscious , in the outset , of the inferiority of my qualifications , experience in my own eyes , perhaps still more in the eyes of others , has ...
Stran 154
... ment of good , it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed . The precedent must always greatly overbalance , in permanent evil , any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield . " Of all the ...
... ment of good , it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed . The precedent must always greatly overbalance , in permanent evil , any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield . " Of all the ...
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