Life of Washington: A Biography, Personal, Military, and Political, Količina 3Virtue, 1860 |
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... tion of an army - would be most likely to conduct and direct us in the smoother paths of peace . Some people have so connected the ideas of tyranny and monarchy as to find it very difficult to separate them . It may , therefore , be ...
... tion of an army - would be most likely to conduct and direct us in the smoother paths of peace . Some people have so connected the ideas of tyranny and monarchy as to find it very difficult to separate them . It may , therefore , be ...
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... tion , whose object was to create a new government through the active energies of the army , and to place their present leader at the head . He sympathized with the army in its distresses , but this movement met with his severest rebuke ...
... tion , whose object was to create a new government through the active energies of the army , and to place their present leader at the head . He sympathized with the army in its distresses , but this movement met with his severest rebuke ...
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... tion , approved Washington's course , and he proceeded to select a British officer for execution , by lot , from among prisoners at Lan- caster , Pennsylvania . It fell upon Captain Asgill , a young man nineteen years of age , an ...
... tion , approved Washington's course , and he proceeded to select a British officer for execution , by lot , from among prisoners at Lan- caster , Pennsylvania . It fell upon Captain Asgill , a young man nineteen years of age , an ...
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... tion of the staff of the army , should assemble at a place designated , at twelve o'clock on Saturday , the fifteenth , for the purpose of hear- ing the report of the committee of the army to Congress . With masterly skill he requested ...
... tion of the staff of the army , should assemble at a place designated , at twelve o'clock on Saturday , the fifteenth , for the purpose of hear- ing the report of the committee of the army to Congress . With masterly skill he requested ...
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... tion , what I know is alone the result of the purest intention ; but the rectitude of my own heart , which disdains such unworthy mo- tives - the part I have hitherto acted in life - the determination I have formed of not taking any ...
... tion , what I know is alone the result of the purest intention ; but the rectitude of my own heart , which disdains such unworthy mo- tives - the part I have hitherto acted in life - the determination I have formed of not taking any ...
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Stran 386 - ... nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
Stran 383 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Stran 383 - ... without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest ; no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness; but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both.
Stran 383 - Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained...
Stran 386 - So likewise a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.
Stran 385 - 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. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
Stran 386 - Antipathy in one nation against another, disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.
Stran 383 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the union by which they were procured? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens?
Stran 385 - Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Stran 385 - Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation 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.