 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.  Life of George Washington - Stran 212avtor: Washington Irving - 1900Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Edward Brush Corwin - 1856 - 348 strani
...Spirit says "As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public, that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner, for pome important service to his country. <J/ 2856 DAVIS (Hick.) The True Spring of Gospel Light and Sense... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 501 strani
...following month, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." " Who is Mr. Washington?" asked Lord Halifax a few months later. " I know nothing of him," he added,... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1856 - 846 strani
...soldiers, speaks of him, in language singularly prophetic, as ' an heroic youth whom Providence hath preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.' Davies died in 1761, at the early age of thirty-six, as President of Princeton College in New Jersey64.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 strani
...following month, "I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom 1 cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." "Who is Mr. Washington f" asked Lord Halifax a few months later. " I know nothing of him," he added,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 strani
...sermon, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved, in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." A remarkable prophecy, as thus uttered from the pulpit. " Who," said Lord Halifax, in a letter to a... | |
 | 1856 - 86 strani
...head of the nation ; as Rev. Samuel Davies expressed it, that " Providence has hitherto preserved him in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The same expectation, becoming almost a premonition, has for years been general among the friends of Fremont.... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 strani
...eulogy on the bravery of the Virginia troops — " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot...manner, for some important service to his country." Mr. Irving observes that the public confidence in Washington was the more creditable to the good sense... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 strani
...then gives as an episode or note, saying, " I may point out to the public, that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...manner for some important service to his country." Doct. Davis' text, in the foregoing sermon, was from 2d Saml. x. 12. "Be of good courage, and let us... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1858 - 684 strani
...and in a note to which he alludes prophetically to Washington — " That heroic youth," says he, i; Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence...manner, for some important service to his country." On another occasion, he preached a Sermon to the Militia of Hanover County, with a view to raise a... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1858 - 666 strani
...and 'in a note to which he alludes prophetically to Washington — " That heroic youth," says he, " Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence...manner, for some important service to his country." On another occasion, he preached a Sermon to the Militia of Hanover County, with a view to raise a... | |
| |
