The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, Throughout the War which Established Their Independence, and First President of the United StatesJ. Jewett, 1832 - 246 páginas |
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... returned to Fort William , on the Catawba , where I met colo- nel Buchannon with about thirty men , chiefly officers , to conduct me up Jackson's river , along the range of forts . With this small company of irregulars , with whom order ...
... returned to Fort William , on the Catawba , where I met colo- nel Buchannon with about thirty men , chiefly officers , to conduct me up Jackson's river , along the range of forts . With this small company of irregulars , with whom order ...
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... returned the British fire . The general , though between both parties , was providentially uninjured by either . A party of the British fled into the college , and were there attacked with field - pieces , which were fired into it ...
... returned the British fire . The general , though between both parties , was providentially uninjured by either . A party of the British fled into the college , and were there attacked with field - pieces , which were fired into it ...
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... returning to Brunswick . While they were fighting in Princeton , the British in Trenton were under arms , and on the point of making an assault on the evacuated camp of the Americans . With so much address had the movement to Princeton ...
... returning to Brunswick . While they were fighting in Princeton , the British in Trenton were under arms , and on the point of making an assault on the evacuated camp of the Americans . With so much address had the movement to Princeton ...
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... returned to Amboy , and thence passed over to Staten Island , resolving to prosecute the objects of the cam- paign by an embarkation of his whole force at New York . During the period of these movements , the real designs of general ...
... returned to Amboy , and thence passed over to Staten Island , resolving to prosecute the objects of the cam- paign by an embarkation of his whole force at New York . During the period of these movements , the real designs of general ...
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... returning to join Kniphausen . This prevented the execution of a plan , which , if carried into effect , would probably have given a different turn to the events of the day . Washington made every exertion to repair the loss which had ...
... returning to join Kniphausen . This prevented the execution of a plan , which , if carried into effect , would probably have given a different turn to the events of the day . Washington made every exertion to repair the loss which had ...
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Página 221 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the 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.
Página 218 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 213 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Página 226 - I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish ; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course, which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But, if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good ; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of...
Página 151 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
Página 225 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Página 223 - ... latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions ; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained ; and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld...
Página 176 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Página 214 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop ; but a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Página 219 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...