The Life of George Washington: With Curious Ancedotes, Equally Honourale to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen : Embellished with Six EngravingsJoseph Allen, 1833 - 228 sider |
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... mother sings , and the little crickets chirp him to sleep ! and as soon as he has slept enough , and jumps up fresh and strong as a little buck , there the sweet golden light is ready for him ! When he looks down into the water , there ...
... mother sings , and the little crickets chirp him to sleep ! and as soon as he has slept enough , and jumps up fresh and strong as a little buck , there the sweet golden light is ready for him ! When he looks down into the water , there ...
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... mother --- his behaviour under school - master Wil- liams . THUS pleasantly , on wings of down , passed away the few short years of little George's and his father's earthly acquaintance . Sweetly ruled by the sceptre of REASON , George ...
... mother --- his behaviour under school - master Wil- liams . THUS pleasantly , on wings of down , passed away the few short years of little George's and his father's earthly acquaintance . Sweetly ruled by the sceptre of REASON , George ...
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... knew would rejoice his departed shade . This was very happily displayed , in every part of his deportment , from the moment of his earliest intercourse with mankind . Soon after the death of his father , his mother 20 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... knew would rejoice his departed shade . This was very happily displayed , in every part of his deportment , from the moment of his earliest intercourse with mankind . Soon after the death of his father , his mother 20 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
Side 21
... mother sent him down to Westmoreland , the place of his nativity , where he lived with his half - brother Augustine , and went to school to a Mr. Williams , an excellent teach- er in that neighbourhood . He carried with him his virtues ...
... mother sent him down to Westmoreland , the place of his nativity , where he lived with his half - brother Augustine , and went to school to a Mr. Williams , an excellent teach- er in that neighbourhood . He carried with him his virtues ...
Side 22
... sport for George , whose passion for active exercise was so strong , that at play - time no weather could keep him within doors . His fair cousins , who visited at his mother's , used to complain , that 22 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... sport for George , whose passion for active exercise was so strong , that at play - time no weather could keep him within doors . His fair cousins , who visited at his mother's , used to complain , that 22 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
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Side 144 - ... the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Side 154 - 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. The nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
Side 142 - I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn. The strength of my inclination to do this previous to the last election had even led to the preparation of an address to declare it to you ; but mature reflection on the then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence...
Side 156 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Side 150 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
Side 155 - ... from whom equal privileges are withheld; and it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens ( who devote themselves to the favorite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity — gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
Side 159 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...
Side 146 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Side 152 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Side 158 - The considerations, which respect the right to hold this conduct, it is not necessary on this occasion to detail. I will only observe, that, according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the Belligerent Powers, has been virtually admitted by all.