 | Robert Templeman Craighill - 1880 - 378 Seiten
...be of the finest marble and best workmanship, with the following inscription on its pedestal: "The general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia have...affection and gratitude to GEORGE WASHINGTON, who, unitirig to the endowments of the HERO, the virtues of the PATRIOT, and exerting both in establishing... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 556 Seiten
...Washington, to be of the finest marble and best workmanship, with this inscription on its pedestal : "The general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia have...affection and gratitude to George Washington, who, to the endowments of the hero uniting the virtues of the patriot, and exerting both in establishing... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1883 - 366 Seiten
...completion of the work. Mr. Madison wrote the inscription which the statue bore : "The General Assembly of Virginia have caused this statue to be erected...hero the virtues of the patriot, and exerting both in establishing the liberties of his country, has ren,dered his name dear to his fellow-citizens, and... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 Seiten
...Washington, to be of the finest marble and best workmanship, with this inscription on its pedestal: " The general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia have...affection and gratitude to George Washington, who, to the endowments of the hero uniting the virtues of the patriot, and exerting both in establishing... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 Seiten
...Washington, to be of the finest marble and best workmanship, with this inscription on its pedestal : " The general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia have...affection and gratitude to George Washington, who, to the endowments of the hero uniting the virtues of the patriot, and exerting both in establishing... | |
 | 1887 - 530 Seiten
...then returned to Paris to do his work." The following inscription was written by Madison: — " The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia have...the hero, the virtues of the patriot, and exerting bsth in establishing the liberties of his country, has rendered his name dear to his fellow- citizens... | |
 | Philip Alexander Bruce, William Glover Stanard - 1922 - 540 Seiten
...Some Virginia Portraits WASHINGTON JEFFERSON MADISON MARSHALL LEE JACKSON JOHNSTON STUART MAURY The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia have...GEORGE WASHINGTON who, uniting to the endowments of a Hero the virtues of the Patriot and exerting both in establishing the liberties of his country has... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 616 Seiten
...Washington, to be of the finest marble and best workmanship, with this inscription on its pedestal : " The general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia have...affection and gratitude to George Washington, who, to the endowments of the hero uniting the virtues of the patriot, and exerting both in establishing... | |
 | Lyman Pierson Powell - 1900 - 656 Seiten
...statue to him May 15, 1784, and Madison penned the inscription which appears on the pedestal : " The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia have...endowments of the hero, the virtues of the patriot, and exercising both in establishing the liberties of his country, has rendered his name dear to his fellow... | |
 | George Cochrane Hazelton - 1902 - 360 Seiten
...of the finest marble and the best workmanship, with the following inscription* on its pedestal : The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia have...Hero the Virtues of the Patriot, and exerting both in establishing the Liberties of his Country, has rendered his Name dear to his Fellow Citizens, and... | |
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The general assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia have caused this statue to be erected as a monument of affection and gratitude to George Washington, who uniting to the endowments of the Hero the virtues of the Patriot, and exerting both in establishing... 
