Essay on the Character and Influence of Washington in the Revolution of the United States of AmericaJ. Munroe, 1840 - 188 halaman |
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... feeling was republican ; the fugitive re- gicides , Goffe and Whalley , found there favor and protection ; and , when the local government were compelled to proclaim Charles the Second as king , they forbade , at the same time , all ...
... feeling was republican ; the fugitive re- gicides , Goffe and Whalley , found there favor and protection ; and , when the local government were compelled to proclaim Charles the Second as king , they forbade , at the same time , all ...
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... feeling in the midst of so much liberty was not a short - lived wisdom , the happy influence of the first * Jefferson's Memoirs , Vol . I. pp . 9 , 10 . burst of enthusiasm . During the period of nearly ten OF WASHINGTON . 21.
... feeling in the midst of so much liberty was not a short - lived wisdom , the happy influence of the first * Jefferson's Memoirs , Vol . I. pp . 9 , 10 . burst of enthusiasm . During the period of nearly ten OF WASHINGTON . 21.
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... feeling was the same in New Jersey , and the Loyalist corps , levied in these two provinces , equalled in numbers the contin- gents furnished by them to the republican armies . In the midst of this population , * Marshall's Life of ...
... feeling was the same in New Jersey , and the Loyalist corps , levied in these two provinces , equalled in numbers the contin- gents furnished by them to the republican armies . In the midst of this population , * Marshall's Life of ...
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... feelings of individuals no less than public institutions , passions as well as laws , were opposed to this re- sult . The ... feeling . The danger of standing armies , and the necessity , in free countries , of perpetually resisting and ...
... feelings of individuals no less than public institutions , passions as well as laws , were opposed to this re- sult . The ... feeling . The danger of standing armies , and the necessity , in free countries , of perpetually resisting and ...
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... feelings , but of modest minds , at the same time ambitious and prudent in their patriotic impulses ; men of rare en- dowments , who expected much from hu- manity , without presuming too much upon themselves , and who risked for their ...
... feelings , but of modest minds , at the same time ambitious and prudent in their patriotic impulses ; men of rare en- dowments , who expected much from hu- manity , without presuming too much upon themselves , and who risked for their ...
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Halaman 176 - I shall also carry with me 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.
Halaman 183 - With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress -without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
Halaman 49 - 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.
Halaman 111 - Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all ; and therefore ought to be the common property of all ; and he that attempts opposition to this creed is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.
Halaman 41 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.
Halaman 101 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity; and, with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr.
Halaman 132 - I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide.
Halaman 40 - For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days.
Halaman 181 - He did the two greatest things which, in politics, man can have the privilege of attempting. He maintained, by peace, that independence of his country, which he had acquired by war. He founded a free government, in the name of the principles of order, and by re-establishing their sway.
Halaman 96 - We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.