Washington After the Revolution: MDCCLXXXIV-MDCCXCIXJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1898 - 416 páginas |
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... Church ) we proceeded to Difficulty Bridge , and lodged at one Shepherds Tavern 25 Miles . " - Washington's Diary . " 6 September 2. - About 5 o'clock we set out from Shepherds ; and leaving the Baggage to follow slowly on , we arrived ...
... Church ) we proceeded to Difficulty Bridge , and lodged at one Shepherds Tavern 25 Miles . " - Washington's Diary . " 6 September 2. - About 5 o'clock we set out from Shepherds ; and leaving the Baggage to follow slowly on , we arrived ...
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... Church ] and I set off for General Washington's . We were engaged to dine there the day before . The General's seat is very elegant ; built upon the great river Potomawk ; for the improvement of the navigation of which , he is carrying ...
... Church ] and I set off for General Washington's . We were engaged to dine there the day before . The General's seat is very elegant ; built upon the great river Potomawk ; for the improvement of the navigation of which , he is carrying ...
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... the West Indies . * Brother of George William Fairfax , of " Belvoir , " and rector of Christ Church , Alexandria , 1790-1792 . WEDNESDAY , JULY 27 . At Mount Vernon : " 3 1785 ] 33 WASHINGTON AFTER THE REVOLUTION . TUESDAY, JULY 5. ...
... the West Indies . * Brother of George William Fairfax , of " Belvoir , " and rector of Christ Church , Alexandria , 1790-1792 . WEDNESDAY , JULY 27 . At Mount Vernon : " 3 1785 ] 33 WASHINGTON AFTER THE REVOLUTION . TUESDAY, JULY 5. ...
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... Church ; to hear a M ' Thompson preach , who returned home with us to Dinner , where I found the Rev. Mr Jones , * formerly a Chaplin in one of the Pennsylvania Regiments . - After we were in Bed ( about Eleven oclock in the Evening ) ...
... Church ; to hear a M ' Thompson preach , who returned home with us to Dinner , where I found the Rev. Mr Jones , * formerly a Chaplin in one of the Pennsylvania Regiments . - After we were in Bed ( about Eleven oclock in the Evening ) ...
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... Church . He was the first Bishop of the American Church . WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 12 . At Mount Vernon : " October 12. - Mr Livingston son of Peter Vanbrugh Livingston of New York came to Dinner & stayed all Night - and in the Evening Mr ...
... Church . He was the first Bishop of the American Church . WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 12 . At Mount Vernon : " October 12. - Mr Livingston son of Peter Vanbrugh Livingston of New York came to Dinner & stayed all Night - and in the Evening Mr ...
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Página 91 - Consolidation of our Union in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our National existence. This important consideration seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid, on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected...
Página 61 - Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States.
Página 364 - And he is to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future President of the United States of America, or the General or other superior Officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of War. This Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being.
Página 109 - That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Página 62 - 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.
Página 126 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more, Welcome to this grateful shore: Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow, Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and matrons grave, These thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers; Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers.
Página 310 - I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide.
Página 122 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Página 343 - During the dinner much hilarity prevailed; but on the removal of the cloth it was put an end to by the President, certainly without design. Having filled his glass, he addressed the company, with a smile...
Página 323 - House a copy of the instructions to the minister of the United States who negotiated the treaty with the King of Great Britain, together with the correspondence and other documents relative to that treaty, excepting such of the said papers as any existing negotiation may render improper to be disclosed.