Illustrated Life of WashingtonG. & F. Bill, 1860 - 528 頁 |
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... river - The Attack - The Victory - March on Princeton - Astonishment of Cornwallis - Death of Colonel Rahl - The effect of the Victory upon the Country - Poverty of the Army - Robert Morris , the noble Financier- etc. , etc. CHAPTER ...
... river - The Attack - The Victory - March on Princeton - Astonishment of Cornwallis - Death of Colonel Rahl - The effect of the Victory upon the Country - Poverty of the Army - Robert Morris , the noble Financier- etc. , etc. CHAPTER ...
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... river swollen by the melted snows of the Alleghanies , and rolling such a turbulent flood that it was impossible to cross it . Waiting two days for the waters to subside , he then swam his horses across and kept up the Maryland side ...
... river swollen by the melted snows of the Alleghanies , and rolling such a turbulent flood that it was impossible to cross it . Waiting two days for the waters to subside , he then swam his horses across and kept up the Maryland side ...
第 31 頁
... rivers south to the mouth of the Missis- sippi , and thus shut up the English east of the Alleghany Mountains . Intelligence was soon received that they had already crossed over ... river , she had a right to all the LIFE OF WASHINGTON 31.
... rivers south to the mouth of the Missis- sippi , and thus shut up the English east of the Alleghany Mountains . Intelligence was soon received that they had already crossed over ... river , she had a right to all the LIFE OF WASHINGTON 31.
第 32 頁
J. T. Headley. Mississippi river , she had a right to all the territories through which its waters flowed . Equally absurd with this claim was that of England , who based her right on Indian treaties , although the tribes ' with which ...
J. T. Headley. Mississippi river , she had a right to all the territories through which its waters flowed . Equally absurd with this claim was that of England , who based her right on Indian treaties , although the tribes ' with which ...
第 33 頁
... rivers , and straining up the steep mountains , the little company kept on its difficult way , and at length reached the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela . Washington's quick eye saw at once the advantages of the place , both ...
... rivers , and straining up the steep mountains , the little company kept on its difficult way , and at length reached the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela . Washington's quick eye saw at once the advantages of the place , both ...
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第 487 頁 - 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.
第 481 頁 - Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a Country ; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion ; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security...
第 481 頁 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterward the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
第 482 頁 - Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party- But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its...
第 483 頁 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any...
第 481 頁 - In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
第 480 頁 - The inhabitants of our western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head; they have seen, in the negotiation by the Executive, and in the unanimous ratification by the Senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event, throughout the United States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them of a policy in the General Government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi...
第 484 頁 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded ; and that in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
第 482 頁 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government, a real despotism.
第 106 頁 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — ("Treason," cried the Speaker — "treason, treason," echoed from every part of the House.