Eulogies and Orations on the Life and Death of General George Washington: First President of the United States of America ...Manning & Loring, 1800 - 304 頁 |
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... live another life upon this globe ; he is to reap a double harvest in the field of perennial hon- our . The people he has faved from external tyranny , fuffer from the agitations of their own unfettled pow- ers . The tree of liberty ...
... live another life upon this globe ; he is to reap a double harvest in the field of perennial hon- our . The people he has faved from external tyranny , fuffer from the agitations of their own unfettled pow- ers . The tree of liberty ...
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... lives not a man among us fo depraved , fo curfed by Heaven . Shall it be said , that the works of his hands whom we this day almost adore , that the hope which he held out to the nations of the earth , fhall be fruftrated by our ...
... lives not a man among us fo depraved , fo curfed by Heaven . Shall it be said , that the works of his hands whom we this day almost adore , that the hope which he held out to the nations of the earth , fhall be fruftrated by our ...
第 29 頁
... lives are long enough for their own glory , but , alas ! ftill too neceffary to their country's welfare . The experience , the learning , the genius , the various coincidence of circumftances , which are neceffary to form that ...
... lives are long enough for their own glory , but , alas ! ftill too neceffary to their country's welfare . The experience , the learning , the genius , the various coincidence of circumftances , which are neceffary to form that ...
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... lives and characters of these two eminent fervants of the Moft High , I think I can trace no inconfiderable refemblance between them , Will you indulge me , while I attempt a parallel be- tween the leader of the armies of Ifrael , and ...
... lives and characters of these two eminent fervants of the Moft High , I think I can trace no inconfiderable refemblance between them , Will you indulge me , while I attempt a parallel be- tween the leader of the armies of Ifrael , and ...
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... live ! Thou fhalt come forth from thy fleeping mansion , not that frail , mortal body , so often worn with fatigue in the fervice of thy country ; but a bright , celeftial form , fit habitation for thy immortal fpirit , and " fafhioned ...
... live ! Thou fhalt come forth from thy fleeping mansion , not that frail , mortal body , so often worn with fatigue in the fervice of thy country ; but a bright , celeftial form , fit habitation for thy immortal fpirit , and " fafhioned ...
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第 166 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 166 頁 - 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.
第 158 頁 - 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.
第 7 頁 - 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...
第 9 頁 - ... 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...
第 147 頁 - 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...
第 239 頁 - 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.
第 164 頁 - 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.
第 13 頁 - 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.
第 11 頁 - 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...