...stammered, trembled, but could make no fitting response. The Speaker relieved his embarrassment by saying, " Sit down, Mr. Washington ! your modesty equals your...valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess !" As a delegate in 1774 to the first Continental Congress, during the prayer with which...

...utterance to a single syllable*" "Sit down, Mr. Washington," said the speaker, with infinite address : " your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." Fourteen or fifteen years more elapsed before the great struggle for American independence...

...in vain essayed to utter a word. The Speaker happily remarked : " Mr Washington, please be seated. Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess. ' ' About this time the French king, having possession of the great lakes in Ihe north,...

...speak a word. The speaker relieved his confusion by coming to his assistance with the kind remark : " Sit .down, Mr. Washington ; your modesty equals your...valor, and that surpasses the power of .any language I possess." The English cause was now more successful than it had ever been, and Canada was exhausted...

...trembled, and could not utter a word. " Sit down, Mr. Washington," said the Speaker, with a smile ; " your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." Such was Washington's first launch into civil life, in which he was to be distinguished...

...overwhelming that he stood silent and abashed. But the venerable Speaker of the House exclaimed, " Sit down, Mr. Washington ; your modesty equals your...valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." Meanwhile, Mount Vernon, a domain which extended ten miles along the Potomac River, fell...

...generously out of this painful dilemma as he had led him into it. "Sit down, Mr. Washington," said he; " your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." Washington, in this celebrated tour of the Ohio, when he peaceably revisited the scene...

...utterance to a single syllable." "Sit down, Mr. Washington," said the Speaker, with infinite address; "your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess." Fourteen or fifteen years more elapsed before the great struggle for American independence...

...extemporaneous " speaker; so he hesitated, and blushed and did not know what to say; whereupon the speaker said: " Sit down, Mr. Washington. Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any Ianguage I possess;" which was a very pretty and very just compliment, was it not? Washington and his...

...extemporaneous " speaker; so he hesitated, and blushed and did not know what to say; whereupon the speaker said:" Sit down, Mr. Washington. Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any Ianguage I possess;" which was a very pretty and very just compliment, was it not? Washington and his...