The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, Volume 2Crissy & Markley, 1848 |
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... employed in cooking and others in washing their clothes . Notwithstanding those occupations , they were in reach of their arms , and were in readiness to take their ground and engage at a moment's warning . By keeping close to the swamp ...
... employed in cooking and others in washing their clothes . Notwithstanding those occupations , they were in reach of their arms , and were in readiness to take their ground and engage at a moment's warning . By keeping close to the swamp ...
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... employed so much time in taking their verbal parole , that he could not reach the rear of the British line until the battle was ended . These casualties disappointed this very interesting part of Greene's intended operations . * The ...
... employed so much time in taking their verbal parole , that he could not reach the rear of the British line until the battle was ended . These casualties disappointed this very interesting part of Greene's intended operations . * The ...
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... employed . On the day of its arrival , therefore , he withdrew from the neighbourhood of Camden , and took a strong position behind Sawney's creek . On the night of the seventh , as had been conjectured , Rawdon passed posed that the ...
... employed . On the day of its arrival , therefore , he withdrew from the neighbourhood of Camden , and took a strong position behind Sawney's creek . On the night of the seventh , as had been conjectured , Rawdon passed posed that the ...
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... employed from the 15th of April to he 5th of June , this corps , acting in conjunction , first with Marion , af- terwards with Pickens , and sometimes alone , had constituted an essen- tial part of the force which carried five British ...
... employed from the 15th of April to he 5th of June , this corps , acting in conjunction , first with Marion , af- terwards with Pickens , and sometimes alone , had constituted an essen- tial part of the force which carried five British ...
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... employ the Americans until his arrangements should be completed . The American van continuing to move forward , encountered the Bri- tish advanced party ; upon which Captain Lieutenant Gaines came up with his field pieces , which opened ...
... employ the Americans until his arrangements should be completed . The American van continuing to move forward , encountered the Bri- tish advanced party ; upon which Captain Lieutenant Gaines came up with his field pieces , which opened ...
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Page 402 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
Page 405 - ... can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...
Page 404 - 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.
Page 148 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 401 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the union by which they were procured ? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens ! To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a government for the whole is indispensable.
Page 406 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 401 - This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Page 402 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 405 - ... credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible ; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the...
Page 409 - 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. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence...