 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 616 páginas
...or see my face no more." When this incident was related to Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, " Leave me but a banner...bleeding country from the dust, and set her free." I have frequently heard, when a boy, an anecdote related by an old settler, somewhat to this effect... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 596 páginas
...Washington, shortly after i curreuce, he enthusiastically exclaimed, " Leave me but a banner to plant upo mountains of Augusta, and I will rally around me the men who will lift our bl< country from the dust, and set her free." I have frequently heard, when a boy, an anecdote related... | |
 | Wills De Hass - 1851 - 444 páginas
...or see my face no more.' When this incident was related to Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, 'Leave me but a banner...bleeding country from the dust, and set her free.' / " I have frequently heard, when a boy, an anecdote related by an old settler, somewhat to this effect... | |
 | 1852 - 460 páginas
...saying of Washington is more frequently quoted upon patriotic occasions in Virginia, than this : " Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains...bleeding country from the dust, and set her free." The incident, however, which led to this remark, is not so generally known. It is thus related in Howe's... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 páginas
...or see my face no more." When this incident was related to Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, " Leave me but a banner...rally around me the men who will lift our bleeding counlry from the dust, and set her free." I have frequently heard, when a boy, an anecdote related... | |
 | Margaret Anthony Cabell - 1858 - 364 páginas
...incident was related to General Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, f Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains...our bleeding country from the dust and set her free ! ' " HOWE'S History of Virginia. WILLIAM LEWIS, mentioned in the above extract, owned a princely estate... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1867 - 282 páginas
...shortly after its occurrence, when he was encamped in the snows of New York, defending that province, he enthusiastically exclaimed : " Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains of West Augusta, and I will rally around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1870 - 322 páginas
...or see my face no more." When this incident was related to Washington shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, ' Leave me but a banner...bleeding country from the dust and set her free.' " enanters of Scotland ; and on the dispute between the Colonists and the mother country, they were... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1870 - 310 páginas
...or see my face no more.' When this incident was related to Washington shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, * Leave me but a banner...bleeding country from the dust and set her free.' " enanters of Scotland; and on the dispute between the Colonists and the mother country, they were... | |
 | George Wesley Atkinson - 1876 - 366 páginas
...or see my face no more.' When this incident was related to Washington, shortly after its occurrence, he enthusiastically exclaimed, ' Leave me but a banner...bleeding country from the dust, and set her free." "I have frequently heard, when a boy, an anecdote related by an old settler, somewhat to this effect... | |
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Leave me but a banner to plant upon the mountains of Augusta, and I will rally around me the men who will lift our bleeding country from the dust, and set her free. 
