 Voltaire has remarked that King William never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the character fits him. There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked...  Life of George Washington - Stran 501avtor: Washington Irving - 1885Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Nathaniel Lande - 1998 - 434 strani
...never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the character fits him. There...discovers a cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it 14 among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blest him with... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 2002 - 300 strani
...the greatest quantity of happiness with the least expense. Address and Declaration, 1791 Fortitude There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot...which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude. The American Crisis, 1776, In speaking of George Washington I have nothing to fear unless innocence... | |
 | Ed Cray, Jonathan Kotler, Miles Beller - 2003 - 444 strani
...never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the character fits him. There...cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blest him with uninterrupted... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 2004 - 260 strani
...never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the Character fits him. There...cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that GOD hath blest him with uninterrupted... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 strani
...never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the character fits him. There...cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blessed him with uninterrupted... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - 2004 - 68 strani
...Autobiography of Rush, 124. 36. Ibid., 125. Paine wrote of Washington that "There is a natural f1rmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles,...when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude." 38 Congressman William Hooper of North Carolina marveled at "how often America has been rescued from... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 strani
...never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on sion, and consent to the same, kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blessed him with uninterrupted... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 strani
...never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the character fits him. There...cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blessed him with uninterrupted... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 434 strani
...never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action. The same remark may be made on General Washington ; for the character fits him. There...cabinet of fortitude ; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blessed him with uninterrupted... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1856 - 644 strani
...which cannot be unlocked by trifles ; but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fox•titude ; and I reckon it among those kinds of public blessings which we do not immediately see, that God laath blessed him with uninterrupted health, and given Iii 1 11 a mind that can even flourish upon... | |
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