The Republican Court: Or, American Society in the Days of WashingtonD. Appleton, 1855 - 408 من الصفحات |
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... then he seemed to be thinking what all this had cost , and regretting that one friend or another who had stood the fire had not lived to see the glorious end . As to On Friday , the seventeenth of December , he arrived PEACE . 3.
... then he seemed to be thinking what all this had cost , and regretting that one friend or another who had stood the fire had not lived to see the glorious end . As to On Friday , the seventeenth of December , he arrived PEACE . 3.
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... arrived at An- napolis . Two years before , on his way northward , he had been received here with every honor in the gift of the city , and had delighted the people by his amenity , at a public dinner , and at a ball graced by the ...
... arrived at An- napolis . Two years before , on his way northward , he had been received here with every honor in the gift of the city , and had delighted the people by his amenity , at a public dinner , and at a ball graced by the ...
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... arrived at his home the same even- ing , having been absent more than eight years and a half , during which time he had never been at his own house , except inciden- tally while on his way with Count Rochambeau to Yorktown , and in ...
... arrived at his home the same even- ing , having been absent more than eight years and a half , during which time he had never been at his own house , except inciden- tally while on his way with Count Rochambeau to Yorktown , and in ...
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... arrived at the age of man- hood had but thirty thousand inhabitants , is now the third city in Christendom , likely at the next decennial census to have rank nearest to London , and at no distant period to take from even that great ...
... arrived at the age of man- hood had but thirty thousand inhabitants , is now the third city in Christendom , likely at the next decennial census to have rank nearest to London , and at no distant period to take from even that great ...
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... arrived in Philadelphia about 1740 to 1745 , are also to be reckoned in it . These all constitut- ed a secondary formation in the colonial stratification . At a later date the men of the revolution , Bradford , McKean , Biddle , Mifflin ...
... arrived in Philadelphia about 1740 to 1745 , are also to be reckoned in it . These all constitut- ed a secondary formation in the colonial stratification . At a later date the men of the revolution , Bradford , McKean , Biddle , Mifflin ...
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الصفحة 138 - ... of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency ; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude,...
الصفحة 138 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
الصفحة 5 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
الصفحة 5 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
الصفحة 123 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more, Welcome to this grateful shore: Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow, Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and matrons grave, These thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers; Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers.
الصفحة 344 - ... every act of my administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.
الصفحة 357 - Speak not of doleful things in time of mirth, nor at the table ; speak not of melancholy things, as death and wounds, and if others mention them, change, if you can, the discourse.
الصفحة 354 - Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard...
الصفحة 138 - Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential...
الصفحة 119 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.