THE ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF WASHINGTON. |
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... enemy . As he looked around and saw what a broad interval lay between his rude works and the covering forest , he felt satisfied with the spot he had selected , declaring it was a " charming field for an en- counter . " In the mean time ...
... enemy . As he looked around and saw what a broad interval lay between his rude works and the covering forest , he felt satisfied with the spot he had selected , declaring it was a " charming field for an en- counter . " In the mean time ...
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... enemy , and destitute of the necessary provisions for his detachment , he received word of the death of his senior in rank , Colonel Fry , at Will's Creek . He was now commander - in - chief . But soon after , an independent company ...
... enemy , and destitute of the necessary provisions for his detachment , he received word of the death of his senior in rank , Colonel Fry , at Will's Creek . He was now commander - in - chief . But soon after , an independent company ...
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... enemy , came limping in . Scouts who had been sent out returned breathless with haste , saying that the enemy , nine hundred strong , was only four mil s dis- tant . This was stirring news , and Washington immediately drew up his little ...
... enemy , came limping in . Scouts who had been sent out returned breathless with haste , saying that the enemy , nine hundred strong , was only four mil s dis- tant . This was stirring news , and Washington immediately drew up his little ...
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... enemy , and would not obey their officers . A few discharges of grape up those ravines would have forced the enemy from their place of concealment , or a single steady charge of bayonets , scattered the Indians in affright . But neither ...
... enemy , and would not obey their officers . A few discharges of grape up those ravines would have forced the enemy from their place of concealment , or a single steady charge of bayonets , scattered the Indians in affright . But neither ...
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... enemy , the enraged patriots pressed forward to the attack . Wearied , mortified and disgraced , the troops at length reached Charlestown , with the loss of two hundred and seventy - three . The day went out in gloom . Silent terror or ...
... enemy , the enraged patriots pressed forward to the attack . Wearied , mortified and disgraced , the troops at length reached Charlestown , with the loss of two hundred and seventy - three . The day went out in gloom . Silent terror or ...
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Stran 483 - If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument 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...
Stran 482 - ... the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should...
Stran 486 - ... 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...
Stran 484 - 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.
Stran 481 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterward the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Stran 106 - 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.
Stran 482 - 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.
Stran 481 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.
Stran 483 - 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 477 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved...