Life of George Washington...J. Stockdale, 1808 - 560 Seiten |
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... Congress at Philadelphia - His Tour to the Southern States - Second Congress - The President refuses his Signature to the Representative Bill - Contemplates re- tiring to private Life - Consents to be a Candidate for the Second ...
... Congress at Philadelphia - His Tour to the Southern States - Second Congress - The President refuses his Signature to the Representative Bill - Contemplates re- tiring to private Life - Consents to be a Candidate for the Second ...
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... Congress , which met in Philadelphia in 1774 ; in which body he had a distinguished agency in the ar- rangement of the military resources of the United Provinces . He was the active member of the committees , to which business of this ...
... Congress , which met in Philadelphia in 1774 ; in which body he had a distinguished agency in the ar- rangement of the military resources of the United Provinces . He was the active member of the committees , to which business of this ...
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... Congress communicated his election , he thus addressed him . " Mr. President , although I am truly sensible of the high honour done me in this appointment , yet I feel great distress from a consciousness that my abilities and military ...
... Congress communicated his election , he thus addressed him . " Mr. President , although I am truly sensible of the high honour done me in this appointment , yet I feel great distress from a consciousness that my abilities and military ...
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... Congress and of different colonies , was blended in all the arrangements of the army . These causes occasioned numerous and complicated embarrass- ments to the commander in chief . The appointment of General Washington was , universally ...
... Congress and of different colonies , was blended in all the arrangements of the army . These causes occasioned numerous and complicated embarrass- ments to the commander in chief . The appointment of General Washington was , universally ...
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... Congress on this subject he ob- serves , " I should be extremely deficient of gratitude , as well as justice , if I did not take the first op- portunity to acknowledge the readiness and atten- tion which the Congress , and the different ...
... Congress on this subject he ob- serves , " I should be extremely deficient of gratitude , as well as justice , if I did not take the first op- portunity to acknowledge the readiness and atten- tion which the Congress , and the different ...
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