Four Great American Presidents: No. 1. Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, LincolnJ.M. Stradling, 1905 - 362 páginas |
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... CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD DAYS . We like to call George Washington the father of our country . This title must not make us think of him as connected with the early settle- ment of America . Fifty years had passed since the settlement of ...
... CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD DAYS . We like to call George Washington the father of our country . This title must not make us think of him as connected with the early settle- ment of America . Fifty years had passed since the settlement of ...
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... for two years more . Though disappointed he threw himself into his work with characteristic zeal , giving special attention now to surveying . CHAPTER II . WASHINGTON'S YOUTH . WHEN vacation came George 18 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... for two years more . Though disappointed he threw himself into his work with characteristic zeal , giving special attention now to surveying . CHAPTER II . WASHINGTON'S YOUTH . WHEN vacation came George 18 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... CHAPTER II . WASHINGTON'S YOUTH . WHEN vacation came George Washington was always ready for a ride across - country to make his brother Lawrence a visit . After his marriage the latter had built a fine house on his estate . He called ...
... CHAPTER II . WASHINGTON'S YOUTH . WHEN vacation came George Washington was always ready for a ride across - country to make his brother Lawrence a visit . After his marriage the latter had built a fine house on his estate . He called ...
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... by leaving to him the man- agement of the fortune of his wife and daughter , and by willing to him the greater part of that fortune provided he should outlive them . CHAPTER III . WINNING HIS SPURS . " I WAS 28 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... by leaving to him the man- agement of the fortune of his wife and daughter , and by willing to him the greater part of that fortune provided he should outlive them . CHAPTER III . WINNING HIS SPURS . " I WAS 28 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... CHAPTER III . WINNING HIS SPURS . " I WAS commissioned and appointed by the Honorable Robert Dinwiddie , Esq . , Governor of Virginia , to visit and deliver a letter to the commandant of the French forces of the Ohio , and set out on ...
... CHAPTER III . WINNING HIS SPURS . " I WAS commissioned and appointed by the Honorable Robert Dinwiddie , Esq . , Governor of Virginia , to visit and deliver a letter to the commandant of the French forces of the Ohio , and set out on ...
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Página 353 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Página 343 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Página 359 - I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 188 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 361 - O Captain ! my Captain ! rise up and hear the bells ; Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and...
Página 187 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers, unused to think freely, and to speak and to write •what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good.
Página 188 - ... the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Página 353 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 37 - As to the summons you send me to retire; I do not think myself obliged to obey it. Whatever may be your instructions, I am here by virtue of the orders of my general ; and, I entreat you, Sir, not to doubt one moment, but that I am determined to con form myself to them with all the exactness and resolution which can be expected from the best officer.
Página 188 - And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even...