...danger of two fights and had come out unharmed. Rev. Samuel Davics spoke of him at that time, as " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The next year a great campaign...

...1755, on his return, at the age of twenty-three, from the disastrous field of the Monongahela — as "that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country"; — who has forgotten,...

...1755, on his return, at the age of twenty-three, from the disastrous field of the Monongahela — as "that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country" ; who has forgotten, who...

...1755, on his return, at the age of twenty-three, from the disastrous field of the Monongahela — as "that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country"; — who has forgotten,...

...1755, on his return, at the age of twenty-three, from the disastrous field of the Monongahela — as "that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country ; " — who has forgotten,...

...soon after Braddock's defeat. The subject was religion and patriotism. "Asa remarkable instance," said he, "I may point out to the public that heroic youth...Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner, for some important (116) service to his country."* We will not call...

...occurs in a sermon preached on the I7th of August by the Rev. Samuel Davis, wherein he cites him as " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The expressions of the...

..."To the public," said Samuel Davies, a learned Virginia divine, in the following month, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." " Who * Compare Dinwiddie...

...Braddock's campaign he had been spoken of from the pulpit by an eminent preacher of the time, as ' that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.' He had served his apprenticeship...

...battle, bearing the prophetic blessing of the venerable President Davies of Princeton College, as " That heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to the country." It was a fair daughter...