Washington After the Revolution: MDCCLXXXIV-MDCCXCIXJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1898 - 416 páginas |
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... intended for the Count de Solms , I will thank you for handing it to Mr. Robert Morris , who will forward it to the Count de Bruhl ( Minister from His Electoral High- VIMU AMBORLIAD 4 WASHINGTON AFTER THE REVOLUTION . [ 1784 3 UNIV. OF ...
... intended for the Count de Solms , I will thank you for handing it to Mr. Robert Morris , who will forward it to the Count de Bruhl ( Minister from His Electoral High- VIMU AMBORLIAD 4 WASHINGTON AFTER THE REVOLUTION . [ 1784 3 UNIV. OF ...
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... minister to Madrid , he joined him in the winter of 1779-80 . He volunteered in the expedition of the Duc de Crillon against Minorca in 1782 , and at the attack on Gibraltar was blown up from one of the floating batteries , but saved ...
... minister to Madrid , he joined him in the winter of 1779-80 . He volunteered in the expedition of the Duc de Crillon against Minorca in 1782 , and at the attack on Gibraltar was blown up from one of the floating batteries , but saved ...
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... which he has been graciously pleased to compliment me . " - Washington to Count de Florida Blanca , Spanish Minister of State . The King of Spain , hearing that General Washington was 1785 ] 47 WASHINGTON AFTER THE REVOLUTION .
... which he has been graciously pleased to compliment me . " - Washington to Count de Florida Blanca , Spanish Minister of State . The King of Spain , hearing that General Washington was 1785 ] 47 WASHINGTON AFTER THE REVOLUTION .
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... ( Minister from Spain ) who as he says came from New York on a visit to me . September 10. - In Conven- tion - Dined at Mr Morris's & drank Tea there . September 11. - In Conven- tion - Dined at home in a large Company with Mr Gardoqui ...
... ( Minister from Spain ) who as he says came from New York on a visit to me . September 10. - In Conven- tion - Dined at Mr Morris's & drank Tea there . September 11. - In Conven- tion - Dined at home in a large Company with Mr Gardoqui ...
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... minister of the Mennonite congregation at Leyden , and who subsequently had a command in the army of Holland , arrived with his family at New York , May 4 , 1788. The fol- lowing reference to his visit at Mount Vernon , taken from his ...
... minister of the Mennonite congregation at Leyden , and who subsequently had a command in the army of Holland , arrived with his family at New York , May 4 , 1788. The fol- lowing reference to his visit at Mount Vernon , taken from his ...
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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.