Eulogies and Orations on the Life and Death of General George Washington: First President of the United States of America ...Manning & Loring, 1800 - 304 sidor |
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... from all his embarrassments . Nay , in the greatest exigencies , the most desperate fituations , his fortitude increased , his E 2 " enterprising genius and unconquerable spirit feemed to acquire fresh ON WASHINGTON . 33.
... from all his embarrassments . Nay , in the greatest exigencies , the most desperate fituations , his fortitude increased , his E 2 " enterprising genius and unconquerable spirit feemed to acquire fresh ON WASHINGTON . 33.
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... spirit feemed to acquire fresh vigour . Princeton and Trenton will remain eternal monuments of this truth ! At those gloomy times , when the confidence and hopes of our firmest and most undaunted patriots al- moft wholly forfook them ...
... spirit feemed to acquire fresh vigour . Princeton and Trenton will remain eternal monuments of this truth ! At those gloomy times , when the confidence and hopes of our firmest and most undaunted patriots al- moft wholly forfook them ...
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... spirit , hail ! Whether man or angel , the difference is not great ! And thou precious duft , reft thou in hope , for thou too fhalt shortly hear the voice of the Son of GOD and live ! Thou fhalt come forth from thy fleeping mansion ...
... spirit , hail ! Whether man or angel , the difference is not great ! And thou precious duft , reft thou in hope , for thou too fhalt shortly hear the voice of the Son of GOD and live ! Thou fhalt come forth from thy fleeping mansion ...
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... SPIRIT to its paternal abode ; and the prayers of ameliorated pofterity will afcend in glowing remembrance of their illuftrious benefactor ! The laurels , that now droop , as they fhadow his tomb with monumental glory , will be ...
... SPIRIT to its paternal abode ; and the prayers of ameliorated pofterity will afcend in glowing remembrance of their illuftrious benefactor ! The laurels , that now droop , as they fhadow his tomb with monumental glory , will be ...
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... spirit of freedom into the field , requires virtues which are rarely found in military characters . The greater part of the Ameri- cans , officers as well as foldiers , had never feen any fervice , were ignorant of their duty , and but ...
... spirit of freedom into the field , requires virtues which are rarely found in military characters . The greater part of the Ameri- cans , officers as well as foldiers , had never feen any fervice , were ignorant of their duty , and but ...
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Sida 166 - Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.
Sida 166 - 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.
Sida 158 - 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.
Sida 7 - In obedience to your will, I rise your humble organ, with the hope of executing a part of the system of- public mourning which you have been pleased to adopt, commemorative of the death of the most illustrious and most beloved personage this country has ever produced ; and which, while it transmits to posterity your sense of the awful event, faintly represents your knowledge of the consummate...
Sida 9 - ... only by the growth of difficulties, he held in check formidable hostile legions, conducted by a chief experienced in the art of war, and famed for his...
Sida 147 - For, though I shall always think it a sacred duty, to exercise with firmness and energy the constitutional powers with which I am vested, yet it appears to me no less consistent with the public good, than it is with my personal feelings, to mingle in the operations of government every degree of moderation and tenderness, which the national justice, dignity, and safety may permit...
Sida 239 - These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self-defence or in defence of their country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof.
Sida 164 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action ; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Sida 13 - New and delicate was the conjuncture, and great was the stake. Soon did his penetrating mind discern and seize the only course, continuing to us all the felicity enjoyed.
Sida 11 - Independent states stretched over an immense territory, and known only by common difficulty, clinging to their union as the rock of their safety, deciding by frank comparison of their relative...