Life of Washington: A Biography, Personal, Military, and Political, Volume 1Virtue, 1860 - Presidents |
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Page 37
... consider intelligently the difficulties and responsibilities of his earlier and later military and civil administrations will not doubt that much of his success resulted from the strict and methodical habits of business which he ...
... consider intelligently the difficulties and responsibilities of his earlier and later military and civil administrations will not doubt that much of his success resulted from the strict and methodical habits of business which he ...
Page 39
... consider whether it ought to be in public or in private , presently or at some other time , also in what terms to do it ; and in reproving , show no signs of choler , but do it with sweetness and mildness . " 18. Mock not , nor jest at ...
... consider whether it ought to be in public or in private , presently or at some other time , also in what terms to do it ; and in reproving , show no signs of choler , but do it with sweetness and mildness . " 18. Mock not , nor jest at ...
Page 54
... consider- able distance , supped at the house of Solomon Hedges , Esquire , one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Frederick , whose style of living is illustrated by the fact that there was neither a knife nor a ...
... consider- able distance , supped at the house of Solomon Hedges , Esquire , one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Frederick , whose style of living is illustrated by the fact that there was neither a knife nor a ...
Page 67
... The English government has , therefore , abundant reason to consider the French in America as the best guardians of the submission of its own plantations . " The policy here suggested was perhaps disturbed only by a suspicion.
... The English government has , therefore , abundant reason to consider the French in America as the best guardians of the submission of its own plantations . " The policy here suggested was perhaps disturbed only by a suspicion.
Page 73
... consider them friends . Our brothers the English have heard this , and I now come to tell it to you . " And he gave the belt of wampum . The French commandant treated with derision the simple and dignified words of the chief . " Child ...
... consider them friends . Our brothers the English have heard this , and I now come to tell it to you . " And he gave the belt of wampum . The French commandant treated with derision the simple and dignified words of the chief . " Child ...
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