 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1853 - 792 頁
...Col. Washington made the most eloquent speech at the Virginia Convention that was ever made. It was : "I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march, myself, at their head, to the relief of Boston." Nor was this alone the voice of Virginia ; the cry that went from this Hall... | |
 | Charles Campbell - 1860 - 766 頁
...to congress. Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee were listened to with delight, and Washington said, "I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my...march myself at their head for the relief of Boston. "f Mr. Jefferson was elected a member of this convention, but was prevented from attending by the state... | |
 | Charles Campbell - 1860 - 790 頁
...congress. Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee were listened to with delight, and Washington said, " I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my...march myself at their head for the relief of Boston. "f Mr. Jefferson was elected a member of this convention, but was prevented from attending by the state... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 頁
...Washington made the most eloquent speech at the Virginia Convention that ever was made.' Says he, ' I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my...march myself at their head for the relief of Boston.' f Such was still in the colonies the diversity of political opinions at the moment when the congress... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 頁
...Washington made the most eloquent speech at the Virginia Convention that ever was made. Says he, " I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my...march myself at their head for the relief of Boston." Mr. Lynch says, they shall export this year twelve thousand weight of indigo, and one hundred and fifty... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 602 頁
...Washington made the most eloquent speech that was ever made, ' and said, I will raise one thousand men, and subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of • Sparks, ii. 297. Boston.' * In 1 769 he was thinking of the possibility of a fight between the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 256 頁
...Washington made the most eloquent speech that was ever made, ' and said, I will raise one thousand men, and subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of * Sparks, ii. 297. Boston.'* In 1769 he was thinking of the possibility of a fight between the Mother... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 頁
...Washington, ready to stake his fortune and his life in the cause, said in the Virginia convention: "I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my...expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston."3 About the time these words were spoken, 1 Letter to Stonington, August 24. On the 29th, Warren... | |
 | Frank Marx Etting - 1874 - 294 頁
...themselves, while the feeling of the Continent was reported to be expressed in the most eloquent words by Washington : " I will raise one thousand men, subsist...march, myself at their head, for the relief of Boston." On Friday evening, the 20th of May, in Philadelphia, a meeting of its residents was promptly held to... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1874 - 56 頁
...Massachusetts in this resistance. In maturing this action, Washington said,, in the Virginia Convention, f? I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my...march myself at their head for the relief of Boston." This Congress met on the fifth day of September, 1774. Their first great act related to Massachusetts.... | |
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I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston. 
