The True George WashingtonLippincott, 1896 - 319 Seiten Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill EDUCATION The father of Washington received his education at Appleby School in England, and, true to his alma mater, he sent his two elder sons to the same school. His death when George was eleven prevented this son from having the same advantage, and such education as he had was obtained in Virginia. His old friend, and later enemy, Rev. Jonathan Boucher, said that George, like most people thereabouts at that time, had no education than reading, writing and accounts which he was taught by a convict servant whom his father bought for a schoolmaster; but Boucher managed to include so many inaccuracies in his account of Washington, that even if this statement were not certainly untruthful in several respects, it could be dismissed as valueless. Born at Wakefield, in Washington parish, Westmoreland, which had been the home of the Wash- ingtons from their earliest arrival in Virginia, George was too young while the family continued there to attend the school which had been founded in that parish by the gift of four hundred and forty acres from some early patron of knowledge. When the boy was about three years old, the family removed to Washington, as Mount Vernon was called before it was renamed, and dwelt there from 1735till 1739, when, owing to the burning of the homestead, another remove was made to an estate on the Rappahannock, nearly opposite Fredericksburg. Here it was that the earliest education of George was received, for in an old volume of the Bishop of Exeter's Sermons his name is written, and on a flyleaf a note in the handwriting of a relative who inherited the library states that this autograph of George Washington's name is believed to be the earliest specimen of his handwriting, when he was probably not more than eight or nine years old. During t... |
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... became a county officer , a burgess , and a colonel of militia . In this latter function he commanded the Virginia troops during the Indian war of 1675 , and when his great - grandson , George , on his first arrival on the frontier ...
... became a county officer , a burgess , and a colonel of militia . In this latter function he commanded the Virginia troops during the Indian war of 1675 , and when his great - grandson , George , on his first arrival on the frontier ...
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... became stern when actual misconduct ensued , and when one of them ran away to Mount Vernon to escape a whipping , Washington himself prepared " to correct him , but he begged so earnestly and promised so faithfully that there should be ...
... became stern when actual misconduct ensued , and when one of them ran away to Mount Vernon to escape a whipping , Washington himself prepared " to correct him , but he begged so earnestly and promised so faithfully that there should be ...
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... became a lawyer and judge of repute . He made this nephew his travelling companion in the Western journey of 1784 , and at other times not merely sent him money , but wrote him letters of advice , dwelling on the dangers that beset ...
... became a lawyer and judge of repute . He made this nephew his travelling companion in the Western journey of 1784 , and at other times not merely sent him money , but wrote him letters of advice , dwelling on the dangers that beset ...
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... became part of the private secretary's duty , both at Mount Vernon and New York and Philadelphia , but the lad inherited his father's traits , and " from his infancy . . . discovered an almost unconquerable disposition to indolence ...
... became part of the private secretary's duty , both at Mount Vernon and New York and Philadelphia , but the lad inherited his father's traits , and " from his infancy . . . discovered an almost unconquerable disposition to indolence ...
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... became poor , so that in 1778 he first put on glasses for reading , and Cobb relates that in the officers ' meeting in 1783 , which Washington attended in order to check an appeal to arms , " When the General took his station at the ...
... became poor , so that in 1778 he first put on glasses for reading , and Cobb relates that in the officers ' meeting in 1783 , which Washington attended in order to check an appeal to arms , " When the General took his station at the ...
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Seite 278 - Our situation is truly distressing. The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time.
Seite 95 - You may believe me, my dear Patsy, when I assure you, in the most solemn manner, that, so far from seeking this appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity...
Seite 267 - I fortunately escaped without any wound; for the right wing, where I stood, was exposed to, and received, all the enemy's fire ; and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II.
Seite 302 - Genet in 1793, when ten thousand people in the streets of Philadelphia, day after day, threatened to drag Washington out of his house, and effect a revolution in the government, or compel it to declare war in favor of the French Revolution, and against England.
Seite 297 - Virginia who was among us and very well known to all of us, a gentleman whose skill and experience as an officer, whose independent fortune, great talents, and excellent universal character, would command the approbation of all America, and unite the cordial exertions of all the Colonies better than any other person in the Union.
Seite 152 - I can only say, that there is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it ; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority ; and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
Seite 167 - ... apart. Of late he has had the surprising sagacity to discover that apples will make pies, and it is a question if, in the violence of his efforts, we do not get one of apples instead of having both of beefsteaks. If the ladies can put up with such entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates once tin but now iron (not become so by the labor of scouring), I shall be happy to see them.
Seite 267 - I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me...
Seite 276 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Seite 95 - I shall feel no pain from the toil or the danger of the campaign; my unhappiness will flow from the uneasiness I know you will feel from being left alone.