Eulogies and Orations on the Life and Death of General George Washington: First President of the United States of America ...Manning & Loring, 1800 - 304 páginas |
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... appeared , and , in the presence of numerous admiring fpectators , refigned his victorious fword into the hands of those who gave it . Auguft fpectacle ! glorious example ! For my own part , I never contemplate it , but each fibre ...
... appeared , and , in the presence of numerous admiring fpectators , refigned his victorious fword into the hands of those who gave it . Auguft fpectacle ! glorious example ! For my own part , I never contemplate it , but each fibre ...
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... appearance of a force , which does not exist ; and hide from his own troops their great inferiority . Both are effected by skill rarely equalled - never ex- celled . Scarce hath the advancing feafon brought forward a few recruits , when ...
... appearance of a force , which does not exist ; and hide from his own troops their great inferiority . Both are effected by skill rarely equalled - never ex- celled . Scarce hath the advancing feafon brought forward a few recruits , when ...
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... the future , had formed a wifh , that the army might be kept together , and , by its appearance , accele- rate the adoption of an efficient government . The fen- timent was patriotic - the plan of doubtful complex- ion ON WASHINGTON . 51.
... the future , had formed a wifh , that the army might be kept together , and , by its appearance , accele- rate the adoption of an efficient government . The fen- timent was patriotic - the plan of doubtful complex- ion ON WASHINGTON . 51.
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... appearance on the theatre of public life , ere the modeft fimplicity of enterprise had invited the decorations of artificial honour , ere the " hair- breadth escapes " of the Monongahela had elicited the native energies of heroifm , to ...
... appearance on the theatre of public life , ere the modeft fimplicity of enterprise had invited the decorations of artificial honour , ere the " hair- breadth escapes " of the Monongahela had elicited the native energies of heroifm , to ...
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... them ; when the watchful guar , dian of his country's interefts , the heart - uniting WASH- INGTON appeared , the political magnet in the centre of discord , and reconciled and confolidated the clash- ing 62 EULOGIES AND ORATIONS.
... them ; when the watchful guar , dian of his country's interefts , the heart - uniting WASH- INGTON appeared , the political magnet in the centre of discord , and reconciled and confolidated the clash- ing 62 EULOGIES AND ORATIONS.
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Página 166 - Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.
Página 166 - I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence, and that after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.
Página 158 - I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Página 7 - In obedience to your will, I rise your humble organ, with the hope of executing a part of the system of- public mourning which you have been pleased to adopt, commemorative of the death of the most illustrious and most beloved personage this country has ever produced ; and which, while it transmits to posterity your sense of the awful event, faintly represents your knowledge of the consummate...
Página 9 - ... only by the growth of difficulties, he held in check formidable hostile legions, conducted by a chief experienced in the art of war, and famed for his...
Página 147 - For, though I shall always think it a sacred duty, to exercise with firmness and energy the constitutional powers with which I am vested, yet it appears to me no less consistent with the public good, than it is with my personal feelings, to mingle in the operations of government every degree of moderation and tenderness, which the national justice, dignity, and safety may permit...
Página 239 - These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self-defence or in defence of their country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof.
Página 164 - 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 13 - New and delicate was the conjuncture, and great was the stake. Soon did his penetrating mind discern and seize the only course, continuing to us all the felicity enjoyed.
Página 11 - Independent states stretched over an immense territory, and known only by common difficulty, clinging to their union as the rock of their safety, deciding by frank comparison of their relative...