Words of Washington

Knight, 1871 - 196 páginas

The Character of George Washington as delineated by Thomas	1

His Compassion for the Victims of Indian Outrage	10

The Service expected of	15

The only Extant Letter to his Wife	41

Three Paragraphs from his Orders to General Arnold	47

His Anxious Hours before Boston	53

Farragut anticipated	59

The Kind of Men he wished for his Guard	65

Advice to a Nephew at School	134

American Manufactures not the Result of a Protective Tariff	137

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES	138

Virtue and Happiness	141

His Feeling upon reentering Public Life	142

Presidential Etiquette	143

On being asked to appoint a Nephew to Office	146

His Last Letter to Dr Franklin	147

Título	Words of Washington Table talk series
Autor	George Washington
Editor	James Parton
Compilado por	James Parton
Editor	Knight, 1871
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Michigan
Digitalizado	15 Abr. 2005
Largo	196 páginas

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How to fight Indians	77

Uncomfortable HeadQuarters	83

He would have had his House burned rather than supply	89

His Consideration for his Aids	105

The Same Subject	108

He is the Founder of our System of Public Improvements and he predicts the Erie Canal	109

He invites Madame de Lafayette	110

He befriends Thomas Paine	111

A Note to Lafayettes little Daughter	112

His Cordial Affection for Lafayette	114

Upon receiving a Valuable Gift from Virginia	116

He means to decline the Gift	119

War	120

The Public Debt	121

Slavery	122

An old London Debt	124

A Universal Dictionary	125

Upon the Constitution of the United States	126

The Happiest Vocation	128

Postscript to the above	130

Importance of Periodicals	131

To his Nephew on his Misconduct at School	132

His Probable Election to the Presidency	133

Man not Responsible to Man for his Faith	148

His Early Distrust of the French Revolution	149

To the Father of two Pretty Girls who had waited upon him	150

Preparations for War	151

Washington as a Landlord	154

Advice to a young Orphan Niece	155

Upon the Estrangement of Jefferson and Hamilton	157

The Same Subject	158

Putting it to the Test	160

Hamilton and Jefferson again	161

His Guiding Principle as President	162

Newspapers	163

Rent of Land then	164

Appointments to Office	165

The President is Sarcastic touching the Newspapers	166

No Infallible Guides	167

Cabinet Appointments	168

The House of Representatives not the TreatyMaking Power	169

NonIntervention	171

National Antipathies and Attachments	172

Our True Foreign Policy	174

Farms too large	179

Directions for his Manager written Four Days before	185