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... Question of Restitution - Dissatisfaction of Genet - Demands Release of Two American Citizens - Washington's Sensitiveness to the Attacks of the Press - His Unshaken Deter- mination • CHAP . XXVII . Washington Called to Mount Vernon ...
... Question of Restitution - Dissatisfaction of Genet - Demands Release of Two American Citizens - Washington's Sensitiveness to the Attacks of the Press - His Unshaken Deter- mination • CHAP . XXVII . Washington Called to Mount Vernon ...
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... question for adjournment was called for , Washington rose , and previous to putting the question , addressed the committee as follows : " Gentlemen , I am sorry to find that some one member of this body has been so neglectful of the ...
... question for adjournment was called for , Washington rose , and previous to putting the question , addressed the committee as follows : " Gentlemen , I am sorry to find that some one member of this body has been so neglectful of the ...
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... question . Should circumstances render it in a man- ner inevitably necessary to be in the affirma- tive , " writes he , I shall assume the task with the most unfeigned reluctance , and with a real Wasbington Elected President 109 ...
... question . Should circumstances render it in a man- ner inevitably necessary to be in the affirma- tive , " writes he , I shall assume the task with the most unfeigned reluctance , and with a real Wasbington Elected President 109 ...
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... question whether any of these testimo- nials of a nation's gratitude affected Washing- ton more sensibly than those he received at Trenton . It was on a sunny afternoon when he arrived on the banks of the Delaware , where , twelve years ...
... question whether any of these testimo- nials of a nation's gratitude affected Washing- ton more sensibly than those he received at Trenton . It was on a sunny afternoon when he arrived on the banks of the Delaware , where , twelve years ...
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... question arose as to the form or title by which the President elect was to be addressed ; and a committee in both Houses was appointed to report upon the subject . The question was stated without Washington's privity , and contrary to ...
... question arose as to the form or title by which the President elect was to be addressed ; and a committee in both Houses was appointed to report upon the subject . The question was stated without Washington's privity , and contrary to ...
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Página 34 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Página 28 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Página 35 - Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world ; having taught a lesson useful to those who inflict and...
Página 25 - ... and his prayers to the God of armies. May ample justice be done them here, and may the choicest of Heaven's favors, both here and hereafter, attend those who, under the Divine auspices, have secured innumerable blessings for others. With these wishes, and this benediction, the commander-in-chief is about to retire from service. The curtain of separation will soon be drawn, and the military scene to him will be closed for ever.
Página 112 - As for myself, the delay may be compared to a reprieve; for in confidence, I tell you, (with the world it would obtain little credit) that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution...
Página 91 - Retired as I am from the world, I frankly acknowledge I cannot feel myself an unconcerned spectator. Yet, having happily assisted in bringing the ship into port, and having been fairly discharged, it is not my business to embark again on a sea of troubles.
Página 13 - ... this may be the ill-fated moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one state against another, to prevent their growing importance, and to serve their own interested purposes.
Página 90 - We must take human nature as we find it: perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
Página 92 - ... Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all, and he that attempts opposition to this creed, is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.
Página 14 - There are four things which I humbly conceive are essential to the -well-being, I may even venture to say to the existence, of the United States as an independent power. First. An indissoluble union of the States under one federal head.