Washington After the Revolution: MDCCLXXXIV-MDCCXCIXJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1898 - 416 páginas |
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... received your picture , and I am entirely taken up to give it a sufficient embellishment by placing it between the King of Prussia and his illustrious brother Henry . You see that this is a trio very harmonical . . . . It must be that ...
... received your picture , and I am entirely taken up to give it a sufficient embellishment by placing it between the King of Prussia and his illustrious brother Henry . You see that this is a trio very harmonical . . . . It must be that ...
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... received his commission as Commander - in - Chief , to accept no compensation from his country for his services other than his expenses , prevented any further action on the subject . SUNDAY , JANUARY 18 . At Mount Vernon : " The ...
... received his commission as Commander - in - Chief , to accept no compensation from his country for his services other than his expenses , prevented any further action on the subject . SUNDAY , JANUARY 18 . At Mount Vernon : " The ...
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... received in the native dignity and with that urbanity so peculiarly combined in the character of a soldier and eminent private gentleman . He soon put me at ease , by unbending in a free and affable conversation . " The first evening I ...
... received in the native dignity and with that urbanity so peculiarly combined in the character of a soldier and eminent private gentleman . He soon put me at ease , by unbending in a free and affable conversation . " The first evening I ...
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... Received an Invitation to the Funeral of W TM Ramsay Esq ' of Alexandria -the oldest Inhabitant of the Town ; & went up - walked in procession as a free mason - M1 Ramsay in his life time being one & now buried with the ceremony ...
... Received an Invitation to the Funeral of W TM Ramsay Esq ' of Alexandria -the oldest Inhabitant of the Town ; & went up - walked in procession as a free mason - M1 Ramsay in his life time being one & now buried with the ceremony ...
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... Received , and accepted an in- vitation to dine with the Sons of Saint Taminy , at M Andersons Tavern , and accordingly did so , at 3 oclock . About Noon , having assembled a sufficient number of the Proprietors of the Swamp , we ...
... Received , and accepted an in- vitation to dine with the Sons of Saint Taminy , at M Andersons Tavern , and accordingly did so , at 3 oclock . About Noon , having assembled a sufficient number of the Proprietors of the Swamp , we ...
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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 241 - The confidence of the whole Union is centred in you. Your being at the helm will be more than an answer to every argument, which can be used to alarm and lead the people in any quarter into violence or secession. North and south will hang together, if they have you to hang on...
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 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.
Página 282 - His Majesty will withdraw all his troops and garrisons from all posts and places within the boundary lines assigned by the treaty of peace to the United States.
Página 65 - You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once.
Página 276 - The communications which I have made to you during your present session, from the despatches of our Minister in London, contain a serious aspect of our affairs with Great Britain. But as peace ought to be pursued with unremitted zeal, before the last resource, which has so often been the scourge of nations, and cannot fail to check the advanced prosperity of the United States, is contemplated...
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 117 - Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy people. Happily the present posture of affairs, and the prevailing disposition of my countrymen, promise to cooperate in establishing those four great and essential pillars of public felicity.