George Clinton : Some of His Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Services1902 - 45 σελίδες |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
George CLinton: Some of His Colonial, Revolutionary and Post- Revolutionary ... Ralph Earl Prime Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1903 |
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Σελίδα 14 - Our Washington is no more ! The hero, the patriot, and the sage of America ; the man on whom in times of danger every eye was turned, and all hopes were placed, lives now only in his own great actions, and in the hearts of an affectionate and afflicted people.
Σελίδα 15 - ... fame is whiter than it is brilliant. The destroyers of nations stood abashed at the majesty of his virtues. It reproved the intemperance of their ambition, and darkened the splendor of victory.
Σελίδα 14 - That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Σελίδα 6 - They planted by your care! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny, to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable, and, among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Σελίδα 14 - However the public confidence may change, and the public affections fluctuate with respect to others, with respect to him, they have in war and in peace, in public and in private life, been as steady as his own firm mind, and as constant as his own exalted virtues. Let us then, Mr. Speaker, pay the last tribute of respect and affection to our departed friend. Let the grand council of the nation display those sentiments which the nation feels. For this purpose I hold in my hand some resolutions which...
Σελίδα 15 - Such was the man whom we deplore. Thanks to God, his glory is consummated. Washington yet lives on earth in his spotless example ; his spirit is in Heaven. " Let his countrymen consecrate the memory of the heroic general, the patriotic statesman, and the virtuous sage. Let them teach their children never to forget that the fruits of his labors and his example are their inheritance.
Σελίδα 14 - ... loved, and, in a season more stormy and tempestuous than war itself, with calm and wise determination, pursue the true interests of the nation and contribute more than any other could contribute to the establishment of that system of policy which will, I trust, yet preserve our peace, our honor, and our independence.
Σελίδα 14 - Resolved, That this house will wait on the President, in condolence of this mournful event. Resolved, That the Speaker's chair be shrouded with black, and that the members and officers of the house wear black during the session.
Σελίδα 14 - American nation, impelled by the same feelings, would call, with one voice, for a public manifestation of that sorrow which is so deep and so universal. " More than any other individual, and as much as to one individual was possible, has he contributed to found this, our wide-spreading empire, and to give to the western world independence and freedom.
Σελίδα 6 - ... on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty to recoil within them...