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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... True , he has been seen in greatness : but it is only the greatness of public character , which is no evidence of true greatness ; for a public character is often an artificial one . At the head of an army or nation , where gold and ...
... True , he has been seen in greatness : but it is only the greatness of public character , which is no evidence of true greatness ; for a public character is often an artificial one . At the head of an army or nation , where gold and ...
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... true greatness , that , compared there- with , the history of his capturing Cornwallis and Tarleton , with their buccaneering legions , sounds almost as small as the story of General Putnam's catching his wolf and her lamb - killing ...
... true greatness , that , compared there- with , the history of his capturing Cornwallis and Tarleton , with their buccaneering legions , sounds almost as small as the story of General Putnam's catching his wolf and her lamb - killing ...
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... true parent , that is , the Guardian Angel , by his child . The following anecdote is a case in point . It is too valuable to be lost , and too true to be doubted ; for it was communicated to me by the same excellent lady to whom I am ...
... true parent , that is , the Guardian Angel , by his child . The following anecdote is a case in point . It is too valuable to be lost , and too true to be doubted ; for it was communicated to me by the same excellent lady to whom I am ...
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... true Father . " 66 High , Pa , an't you my true father , that has loved me , and been so good to me always ? " " Yes George , I am your father , as the world calls it and I love you very dearly too . But yet with all my love for you ...
... true Father . " 66 High , Pa , an't you my true father , that has loved me , and been so good to me always ? " " Yes George , I am your father , as the world calls it and I love you very dearly too . But yet with all my love for you ...
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... true Virginia valour shine more gloriously than on this trying occasion to see 300 young fellows - commanded by a smooth - faced boy -all unaccustomed to the terrors of war - far from home - and from all hope of help - shut up in a ...
... true Virginia valour shine more gloriously than on this trying occasion to see 300 young fellows - commanded by a smooth - faced boy -all unaccustomed to the terrors of war - far from home - and from all hope of help - shut up in a ...
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Stran 168 - 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 time yield.
Stran 172 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. 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...
Stran 161 - But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest — here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of maritime and commercial...
Stran 175 - ... the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence ; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations...
Stran 162 - While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find, in the united mass of means and efforts, greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a...
Stran 171 - ... 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. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.
Stran 166 - 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 172 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Stran 164 - No alliances, however strict, between the parts, can be an adequate substitute; they must, inevitably, experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced.
Stran 169 - As a very important source of strength and security cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it...