George Washington

By

Paul Leicester Ford

Author of "The Honorable Peter Stirling"
Editor of "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson" and
"The Sayings of Poor Richard"

"That I have foibles, and perhaps many of them, I
shall not deny. I should esteem myself, as the world
would, vain and empty, were I to arrogate perfection."
-Washington

"Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set
down aught in malice."-Shakespeare

Philadelphia

J. B. Lippincott Company

US 4570.110.26

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT, 1896

BY

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

SIXTEENTH EDITION

ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

ΤΟ

WILLIAM F. HAVEMEYER,

IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE INDEBTEDNESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS COLLECTION

OF

WASHINGTONIANA.