 | Timothy Alden - 1814 - 306 Seiten
...grace. == MOUNT VERNON, VIRG. 895. Note. — His excellency GI:ORCE AVASHiKGTOif, who was emphatically " the first in war, the first in peace, and the first in the hearts of his countrymen," was born at the ancient ma'nsion of Ks American ancestors, at Bridge's Creek in Westmoreland county,... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 Seiten
...section of the globe, -which is the boasted land of liberty ; in these states, which produced him who was the " first in war, the first in peace, and the first in the hearts of his country," and who was the same great and unequalled character, whether he was seen directing the storm... | |
 | 1814 - 680 Seiten
...section of the globe, which is the boasted land of liberty; in ithese states, which produced him who was the " first in war, the first in peace, and the first in the hearts of Ki country," and who was the same great and unequalled character, whether he was seen directing the... | |
 | Isaac Stockton Keith - 1816 - 470 Seiten
...who, in the expressive and emphatical language of our House of Representatives in Congress, — " was the first in war — the first in peace, and the first in the affections of his country." To trace the respectable descent of this great and worthy man — to attend... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 778 Seiten
...deep, silent, and solemn adjournment of the two Houses, in commemoration of him who is justly styled "the first in war, the first in peace, and the first in the hearts of his countrymen," I should have had no objection to it. But the committee have gone further, and propose to connect it... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 782 Seiten
...deep, silent, and solemn adjournment of the two Houses, in commemoration of him who is justly styled "the first in war, the first in peace, and the first in the hearts of his countrymen," 1 should have had no objection to it. But the committee have gone further, ami propose to connect it... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 778 Seiten
...deep, silent, and solemn adjournment of the two Houses, in commemoration of him who is justly styled "the first in war, the first in peace, and the first in the hearts of his countrymen, I should have had no objection to it. Hut the com • '• -ith mittee have gone further, and propose... | |
 | Mann Butler - 1834 - 430 Seiten
...United States, what must be embalmed in the heart of every patriotic American; that George Washington, "the first in war, the first in peace, and the first in the hearts of his countrymen," received their unanimous votes for this last but splendid testimonial of their continued regard for... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1835 - 122 Seiten
...Washington, said, • Divine Providence hath been pleased to withdraw from the midst of us this man, the first in war, the first in peace, and the first in the afections of his country l' what sentiments, what ideas are recalled to the mind by those expressions... | |
 | 1836 - 496 Seiten
...that the infant boy she nursed, had no sooner grown to manhood, than he became the " first in war, first in peace, and the first in the hearts of his countrymen" — she remembers not that he died the adoration of his country, and claimed by the whole world as... | |
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THE man who was fondly regarded as " the first, in War, the first in Peace, and the first in the Hearts of his countrymen," could trace the line of his ancestry back nearly to the Norman conquest of England. 
