The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts, Volum 9Ferdinand Andrews, 1839 |
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... offered to you both ; and with sincere affection , I am , dear Sir , & c . TO JONATHAN TRUMBULL , JUNIOR . DEAR TRUMBull , Mount Vernon , 5 January , 1784 . Your obliging letter of the 15th of November did not reach me until some days ...
... offered to you both ; and with sincere affection , I am , dear Sir , & c . TO JONATHAN TRUMBULL , JUNIOR . DEAR TRUMBull , Mount Vernon , 5 January , 1784 . Your obliging letter of the 15th of November did not reach me until some days ...
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... offering those acknowledgments of your long and zealous services to the public , which your merits justly entitle you to , and which a grateful heart should not withhold ; and I feel very sensibly the obligations I am personally under ...
... offering those acknowledgments of your long and zealous services to the public , which your merits justly entitle you to , and which a grateful heart should not withhold ; and I feel very sensibly the obligations I am personally under ...
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... offer you my best thanks for the indulgent sentiments you are pleased to express of my conduct , and for your benevolent wishes respect- ing my personal welfare , as well as with regard to a more interesting object , the prosperity of ...
... offer you my best thanks for the indulgent sentiments you are pleased to express of my conduct , and for your benevolent wishes respect- ing my personal welfare , as well as with regard to a more interesting object , the prosperity of ...
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... offers contained in your letters of the 6th and 12th instant , both of which are safe at hand . If ever I should have it in my power to make an excursion of that kind , nothing could add more to the pleasure of it than having you of the ...
... offers contained in your letters of the 6th and 12th instant , both of which are safe at hand . If ever I should have it in my power to make an excursion of that kind , nothing could add more to the pleasure of it than having you of the ...
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... offer- ed to Mrs. Craik and your family , and I am , with sin- cere esteem and friendship , dear Sir , yours , & c . * The General Assembly of Virginia , on the 22d of June , voted an address to General Washington . A joint committee ...
... offer- ed to Mrs. Craik and your family , and I am , with sin- cere esteem and friendship , dear Sir , yours , & c . * The General Assembly of Virginia , on the 22d of June , voted an address to General Washington . A joint committee ...
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Side 247 - Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein, as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Side 503 - ... water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Side 503 - ... of establishing rules for deciding in all cases what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces, in the service of the United States, shall be divided or appropriated...
Side 503 - Entering into treaties and alliances ; provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made, whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as...
Side 18 - I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with a heartfelt satisfaction.
Side 2 - The scene is at last closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues.
Side 489 - ... life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities, and inclination, which are necessary to manage the helm. I am sensible that I am embarking the voice of the people, and a good name of my own, on this voyage; but what returns will be made for them, Heaven alone can foretell. Integrity and firmness are all I can promise. These, be the voyage long or short, shall never forsake me, although I may be...
Side 138 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Side 159 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law.
Side 22 - ... strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless true, that it was not till lately I could get the better of my usual custom of ruminating, as soon as I waked in the morning, on the business of the ensuing day ; and of my surprise at finding, after revolving many things in my mind, that I was no longer a public man, nor had any thing to do with public transactions.