Character Portraits of Washington as Delineated by Historians, Orators and Divines: Selected and Arranged in Chronological Order with Biographical Notes and ReferencesR. M. Lindsay, 1887 - 351 Seiten |
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... temper , and who at best could only be stiled an alert and good militia , acting under very short enlistments , uncloathed , unaccoutred , and at all times very ill supplied with ammu- nition and artillery ; and that with such an army ...
... temper , and who at best could only be stiled an alert and good militia , acting under very short enlistments , uncloathed , unaccoutred , and at all times very ill supplied with ammu- nition and artillery ; and that with such an army ...
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... temper rather reserved ; a total stranger to religious prejudices , which have so often excited Christians of one de- nomination to cut the throats of those of another ; in his morals irre- proachable ; he was never known to exceed the ...
... temper rather reserved ; a total stranger to religious prejudices , which have so often excited Christians of one de- nomination to cut the throats of those of another ; in his morals irre- proachable ; he was never known to exceed the ...
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... while apart from our quotation , the remarks of the writer upon the genius , temper , and customs of the people , are extremely interesting . PRINCE DE BROGLIE . 1782 . GENERAL WASHINGTON is now 3 CLAUDE C. ROBIN . 17.
... while apart from our quotation , the remarks of the writer upon the genius , temper , and customs of the people , are extremely interesting . PRINCE DE BROGLIE . 1782 . GENERAL WASHINGTON is now 3 CLAUDE C. ROBIN . 17.
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... temper is always even . He has never testified the least humor . Modest even to humility , he does not seem to estimate himself at his true worth . He receives with perfect grace all the homages which are paid him , but he evades them ...
... temper is always even . He has never testified the least humor . Modest even to humility , he does not seem to estimate himself at his true worth . He receives with perfect grace all the homages which are paid him , but he evades them ...
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... : " A char- acter of virtues so happily tempered by one another , and so wholly unalloyed with any vices , as that of Washington , is hardly to be found in the pages of history . " HENRY WANSEY . 1794 . JUNE 6 , ( 1794.
... : " A char- acter of virtues so happily tempered by one another , and so wholly unalloyed with any vices , as that of Washington , is hardly to be found in the pages of history . " HENRY WANSEY . 1794 . JUNE 6 , ( 1794.
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