The Presidents of the United States: From Washington to Pierce. Comprising Their Personal and Political HistoryPhillips, Sampson, 1855 - 455 sider |
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... body fell back to the Great Meadows , where Washington determined to make a stand . The men were diligently employed in strengthening the defences with all the means at command . On the morning of the 3d of July , the French approached ...
... body fell back to the Great Meadows , where Washington determined to make a stand . The men were diligently employed in strengthening the defences with all the means at command . On the morning of the 3d of July , the French approached ...
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... body of the army reached Loyal Hanna . Washington requested and received the command of the ad- vanced division of one thousand men , upon whom the chief labor and duty devolved . No material event , besides the defeat of Major Grant's ...
... body of the army reached Loyal Hanna . Washington requested and received the command of the ad- vanced division of one thousand men , upon whom the chief labor and duty devolved . No material event , besides the defeat of Major Grant's ...
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... body be tendered to Colonel Washington for the important services he had render to his country , and enforced his motion in a glowing speech . Washington arose to express his acknowledgements for the honor , but such was his confusion ...
... body be tendered to Colonel Washington for the important services he had render to his country , and enforced his motion in a glowing speech . Washington arose to express his acknowledgements for the honor , but such was his confusion ...
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... bodies were unequal , and authorized Gene- ral Washington to raise sixteen additional regiments , con- ferring upon him , at the same time , for six months , dictato- rial power , for the conduct of the war . In the beginning of 1777 ...
... bodies were unequal , and authorized Gene- ral Washington to raise sixteen additional regiments , con- ferring upon him , at the same time , for six months , dictato- rial power , for the conduct of the war . In the beginning of 1777 ...
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... body of the people and the army , was found impossible ; and even the troops who had conquered under Gates received the idea of the change with indignation . The machinations of his ene- mies were frustrated without any effort on his ...
... body of the people and the army , was found impossible ; and even the troops who had conquered under Gates received the idea of the change with indignation . The machinations of his ene- mies were frustrated without any effort on his ...
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Side 29 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
Side 126 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain.
Side 122 - It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies ; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation. She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy — a commerce polluted by the forgeries and perjuries...
Side 31 - resolved that the thanks of Congress in their own name, and in the name of the Thirteen United Colonies whom they represent, be presented to his Excellency General Washington, and the officers and soldiers under his command, for their wise and spirited conduct in the siege and acquisition of Boston...
Side 121 - ... a belief that, having resorted to her orders with regret, she was anxious to find an occasion for putting an end to them. Abandoning still more all respect for the neutral rights of the United States and for its own consistency, the British...
Side 62 - If a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth ; if an attachment to the constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it...
Side 173 - ... been discharged; provision has been made for the comfort and relief of the aged and indigent among the surviving warriors of the Revolution; the regular armed force...
Side 203 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Side 63 - ... if a love of virtuous men of all parties and denominations; if a love of science and letters and a wish to patronize every rational effort to encourage schools, colleges, universities, academies, and every institution for propagating knowledge, virtue, and religion among all classes of the people...
Side 120 - ... commerce has been plundered in every sea; the great staples of our country have been cut off from their legitimate markets; and a destructive blow aimed at our agricultural and maritime interests. In aggravation of these predatory measures, they have been considered as in force from the dates of their notification ; a retrospective effect being thus added, as has been done in other important cases, to the unlawfulness of the course pursued. And to render the outrage the more signal, these mock...