Lives of the Presidents of the United States: With Biographical Notices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events in the History of the Country, from Its Discovery to the Present Time, and a General View of Its Present ConditionN. Watson & Company, 1833 - 508 sivua |
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... duties of his office , Washington visited the frontiers , and made the best disposition of the few soldiers he found in the various posts . On his way to Williamsburg , he was overtaken by an express , with information that the back ...
... duties of his office , Washington visited the frontiers , and made the best disposition of the few soldiers he found in the various posts . On his way to Williamsburg , he was overtaken by an express , with information that the back ...
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... duties of his high station . Having passed a few days in New - York , and making some arrangement with General Schuyler who commanded there , he proceeded to Cambridge , which was the headquarters of the American army . On his way ...
... duties of his high station . Having passed a few days in New - York , and making some arrangement with General Schuyler who commanded there , he proceeded to Cambridge , which was the headquarters of the American army . On his way ...
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... duties of my present onorable , but arduous situation , I only emulate the virtue and public pirit of the whole province of Massachusetts , which , with a firmness and patriotism without example , has sacrificed all the comforts of ...
... duties of my present onorable , but arduous situation , I only emulate the virtue and public pirit of the whole province of Massachusetts , which , with a firmness and patriotism without example , has sacrificed all the comforts of ...
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... duties , to carry along with me the approbation of my constituents , would be the highest gratification of which my mind is susceptible . But the latter being secondary , I cannot make the former yield to it , unless some criterion more ...
... duties , to carry along with me the approbation of my constituents , would be the highest gratification of which my mind is susceptible . But the latter being secondary , I cannot make the former yield to it , unless some criterion more ...
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... duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty . The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government . But the constitution which at any time exists , until ...
... duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty . The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government . But the constitution which at any time exists , until ...
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