Life of George Washington, 第 4 卷Bohn, 1857 |
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... received grants of land from the crown ; Scotch Highlanders , transported hither after the disastrous battle of Culloden ; Dutch colonists , who had left New York after its submission to England , and been settled here on bounty lands ...
... received grants of land from the crown ; Scotch Highlanders , transported hither after the disastrous battle of Culloden ; Dutch colonists , who had left New York after its submission to England , and been settled here on bounty lands ...
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... received by them , should be considered as advanced on account , and comprehended at their just value in the final settlement . At this gloomy crisis came a letter from the Mar- quis de Lafayette , dated April 27th , announcing his ...
... received by them , should be considered as advanced on account , and comprehended at their just value in the final settlement . At this gloomy crisis came a letter from the Mar- quis de Lafayette , dated April 27th , announcing his ...
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... received your letter , " writes he , " with all the joy that the sincerest friendship could dictate , and with that impatience which an ardent desire to see you could not fail to inspire . I most sincerely con- gratulate you on your ...
... received your letter , " writes he , " with all the joy that the sincerest friendship could dictate , and with that impatience which an ardent desire to see you could not fail to inspire . I most sincerely con- gratulate you on your ...
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... received with pleasure a " ten- der of the further services of so gallant and meritori- ous an officer . " Within three days after the departure of the mar- quis from Morristown , Washington , in a letter to him , gave his idea of the ...
... received with pleasure a " ten- der of the further services of so gallant and meritori- ous an officer . " Within three days after the departure of the mar- quis from Morristown , Washington , in a letter to him , gave his idea of the ...
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... received a joint summons from the British general and admiral to surrender . " Sixty days have passed , " writes Lincoln in reply , " since it has been known that your intentions against this town were hostile , in which , time has been ...
... received a joint summons from the British general and admiral to surrender . " Sixty days have passed , " writes Lincoln in reply , " since it has been known that your intentions against this town were hostile , in which , time has been ...
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第 291 頁 - It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration.
第 505 頁 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York, in company with Mr.
第 408 頁 - ... let me request you to rely on the plighted faith of your country, and place a full confidence in the purity of the intentions of Congress...
第 492 頁 - The consequences of a lax or inefficient government are too obvious to be dwelt upon. Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other, and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole; whereas a liberal and energetic constitution, well checked, and well watched to prevent encroachments, might restore us to that degree of respectability and consequence, to which we had the fairest prospect of attaining.
第 117 頁 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
第 439 頁 - You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
第 405 頁 - After mature deliberation," added he, " they will devise what further measures ought to be adopted as most rational and best calculated to obtain the just and important object in view.," On the following day another anonymous address was circulated, written in a more moderate tone, but to the same purport with the first, and affecting to construe the general orders into an approbation of the object sought ; only changing the day appointed for the meeting.
第 431 頁 - ... offer in their behalf his recommendations to their grateful country, and his prayers to the God of armies. May ample justice be done them here, and may the choicest of Heaven's favors, both here and hereafter, attend those who, under the Divine auspices, have secured innumerable blessings for others. With these wishes, and this benediction, the commander-in-chief is about to retire from service. The curtain of separation will soon be drawn, and the military scene to him will be closed for ever.
第 422 頁 - There are four things which I humbly conceive are essential to the -well-being, I may even venture to say to the existence, of the United States as an independent power. First. An indissoluble union of the States under one federal head.
第 428 頁 - I could not help taking a more extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others ; and could not but be struck with the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have...