...friendships and enmities, let your confidence and your hostilities have bounds (Chesterfield), 361 ; Be courteous to all, but intimate with few ; and let those few be well tried. . . . True friendship is a plant of slow growth (Washington) 399 ; Our chief want in life is somebody...

...OBIGINAL MAXIMS OF GEOBGE WASHINGTON. i. COMMEBCE and industry are the best mines of a nation. ii. Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one. in. Ingratitude, I hope, will never constitute a part of my character, nor find a place in my bosom....

...scrapes, which very often they involuntarily lead one into, prove equally distressing and disgraceful. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few ; and let...for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in * Bushrod Washington became an eminent jurist. For thirty years he was a Justice...

...liberal professions of good will are very far from beingtbe surest marks of it. ... True friendship is i plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. — Social Maxims: Friendship. How to Live Well. — Be courteous to all, bm intimate with few ; and...

...just the man to make a good soldier, and I want to tell you how George Washington became a soldier. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your LESSON XIV. George Washington. PART II. — THE SOLDIER. YOU know that when the Pilgrims came to America...

...just the man to make a good soldier, and I want to tell you how George Washington became a soldier. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your LESSON XIV. George Washington. PART II. — THE SOLDIER. YOU know that when the Pilgrims came to America...

...indebted. I trust and believe that I let go no chance in after life to serve this admirable family. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. In fact, much disaster has befallen these friends, from whom politics and distance have separated me...

...indebted. I trust and believe that I let go no chance in after life to serve this admirable family. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. In fact, much disaster has befallen these friends, from whom politics and distance have separated me...

...after we have once committed ourselves to them." "NEWBURG, JANUARY 15, 1783. From the same. fidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must...adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation." " On one occasion when the troops were wearily plodding to their winter quarters at Valley Forge, Washington's...

...arrive at maturity. " "Rashness is the error oí youth, timid caution of age " (Colton, Lacon) and " True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must...adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." (G. Washington, Social Alaxims : Friendship. ) Consummate master of language. BEN'JAMIN DISRAELI [Earl...