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... Mount Vernon : " If my commission [ as Commander- in - Chief ] is not necessary for the files of Congress , I should be glad to have it deposited among my own papers . It may serve my grandchildren , some fifty or a hundred years hence ...
... Mount Vernon : " If my commission [ as Commander- in - Chief ] is not necessary for the files of Congress , I should be glad to have it deposited among my own papers . It may serve my grandchildren , some fifty or a hundred years hence ...
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... Mount Vernon : " I am just beginning to experience that ease and freedom from public cares , which , however desirable , takes some time to realize ; for , strange as it may seem , it is nevertheless true , that it was not till lately I ...
... Mount Vernon : " I am just beginning to experience that ease and freedom from public cares , which , however desirable , takes some time to realize ; for , strange as it may seem , it is nevertheless true , that it was not till lately I ...
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... Mount Vernon the same day . The embarrassment in the business referred to by Washington arose from his desire to overcome the popular dissatisfaction excited by the insti- tution of the society , produced mainly by the provision of ...
... Mount Vernon the same day . The embarrassment in the business referred to by Washington arose from his desire to overcome the popular dissatisfaction excited by the insti- tution of the society , produced mainly by the provision of ...
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... Mount Vernon : " The General being in want of a House Joiner & Bricklayer who understand their respec- tive trades perfectly , would thank Mr. Rumney for en- quiring into the terms upon which such workmen might be engaged for two or ...
... Mount Vernon : " The General being in want of a House Joiner & Bricklayer who understand their respec- tive trades perfectly , would thank Mr. Rumney for en- quiring into the terms upon which such workmen might be engaged for two or ...
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... Mount Vernon twelve days . WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 1 . Leaves Mount Vernon : " September 1. - Having found it indispensably necessary to visit my Landed property West of the Apalacheon Mountains , and more especially that part of it which ...
... Mount Vernon twelve days . WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 1 . Leaves Mount Vernon : " September 1. - Having found it indispensably necessary to visit my Landed property West of the Apalacheon Mountains , and more especially that part of it which ...
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Página 338 - 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 242 - ... by God he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made Emperor of the world; and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a King.
Página 56 - 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 83 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the 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 ; and thus the Constitution, which we now...
Página 57 - 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 111 - 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 297 - 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 59 - 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 253 - 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 321 - To make and sell a little flour annually, to repair houses going fast to ruin, to build one for the security of my papers of a public nature, and to amuse myself in agricultural and rural pursuits, will constitute employment for the few years I have to remain on this terrestrial globe.