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... length crossed the first ridge of the Alleghanies and entered on an almost untrodden wilderness , and commenced his surveys . Scat- tered Dutch settlers , that could not speak a word of English , collected as he passed , and the men ...
... length crossed the first ridge of the Alleghanies and entered on an almost untrodden wilderness , and commenced his surveys . Scat- tered Dutch settlers , that could not speak a word of English , collected as he passed , and the men ...
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... length reached the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela . Washington's quick eye saw at once the advantages of the place , both for a fortifi- cation and a depot for provisions , and by his advice a mili- tary post was afterward ...
... length reached the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela . Washington's quick eye saw at once the advantages of the place , both for a fortifi- cation and a depot for provisions , and by his advice a mili- tary post was afterward ...
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... length obtained his gun , pre- pared to leave ; but the French commandant , still intent on retaining him , endeavored to get him drunk . Washington , however , never left the Indian's side , and by plying him with appeals and ...
... length obtained his gun , pre- pared to leave ; but the French commandant , still intent on retaining him , endeavored to get him drunk . Washington , however , never left the Indian's side , and by plying him with appeals and ...
Side 35
... length they came upon a barri- cade of ice , stretching completely across the channel . Around this the canoe had to be carried for a quarter of a mile . They were a whole week making this hundred and thirty miles . Having at last ...
... length they came upon a barri- cade of ice , stretching completely across the channel . Around this the canoe had to be carried for a quarter of a mile . They were a whole week making this hundred and thirty miles . Having at last ...
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... length the Youghogany , a halt was made , till a bridge could be built across the stream . Being told here by some Indians that the river was navigable to its junction with boats , Washington took with him five men and proceeded down ...
... length the Youghogany , a halt was made , till a bridge could be built across the stream . Being told here by some Indians that the river was navigable to its junction with boats , Washington took with him five men and proceeded down ...
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Side 487 - 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.
Side 481 - Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a Country ; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion ; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security...
Side 481 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterward the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Side 482 - Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party- But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its...
Side 483 - 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. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any...
Side 481 - In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Side 480 - The inhabitants of our western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head; they have seen, in the negotiation by the Executive, and in the unanimous ratification by the Senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event, throughout the United States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them of a policy in the General Government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi...
Side 484 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded ; and that in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
Side 482 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government, a real despotism.
Side 106 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — ("Treason," cried the Speaker — "treason, treason," echoed from every part of the House.