George WashingtonG.G. Harrap, 1922 - 171 páginas |
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acts American appointed army arrived attack Boston Braddock Braddock's Britain British British army Bunker's Hill Burgoyne called camp Canada colonies colonists command conduct Congress Continental Army Cornwallis danger despotism Dorchester Heights Duquesne duty eighteenth century enemy England English Fairfax famous favor foreign Fort Duquesne France French friends Gage gave gentleman George III George Washington give Governor hand happy Heights hold honor Horace Walpole horses House House of Burgesses idea Indians ington interest John Adams King land letter liberty Lord ment miles military morning mother Mount Vernon nation necessary never night obliged occasion officers opinion party Patrick Henry patriotism peace Philadelphia political President rebel retire retreat river sent soldiers Spain spirit taken things thought tion took town troops United Virginia Wash whole Williamsburg wrote York
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Página 166 - ... that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure,...
Página 73 - For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbouring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies...
Página 154 - ... me all important to the permanency of your felicity as a people. These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel.
Página 159 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp, for themselves, the reins of government ; destroying, afterwards, the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 153 - ... which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me; still more 156 for the steadfast confidence with which it has supported me; and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment by services faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal.
Página 164 - The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject...
Página 163 - To facilitate to them the performance of their duty it is essential that you should practically bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there 166 must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of...
Página 168 - ... of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the belligerent powers, has been virtually admitted by all. " The duty of holding a neutral conduct...
Página 48 - The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.
Página 98 - ... the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country — that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigour as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty, is indispensable.