 | United States. Commission for Dedication of Washington Monument - 1885 - 138 σελίδες
...uncorrupted choice of a brave and free People, the original and purest fountain of all power," and that, "far from making it a plea for cruelty, a mind of...magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it." Victoriously did he vindicate the principle of the Declaration of Independence, that to... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 372 σελίδες
...honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. Far from making...magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it." Washington had grasped instinctively the gen- * era! truth that Englishmen are prone to... | |
 | Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 268 σελίδες
...honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the present source and original fountain of all power. Far from making...magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it." 1778 Washington wrote from White Plains to General Nelson : " It is not a little pleasing,... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 470 σελίδες
...uncorrupted choice of a brave and free People, the original and purest fountain of all power," and that, " far from making it a plea for cruelty, a mind of true...magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it." Victoriously did he vindicate the principle of the Declaration of Independence, that to... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1901 - 522 σελίδες
...honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. Far from making...it a plea for cruelty, a mind of true magnanimity would comprchend and respect it." After the affairs at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, Gage was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1908 - 622 σελίδες
...honorable than that which flows from the uncorrnpted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. Far from making...magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it. have precipitated the present crisis, Lexington, Concord, and Charlestown can best declare.... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 552 σελίδες
...honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. Far from making...magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it. " What may have been the ministerial views which have precipitated the present crisis,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 626 σελίδες
...honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. Far from making...magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it. "What may have been the ministerial views which have precipitated the present crisis, Lexington,... | |
 | George Washington - 1908 - 500 σελίδες
...honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. Far from making...magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it. What may have been the ministerial views, which have precipitated the present crisis, Lexington,... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 848 σελίδες
...honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. Far from making...magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it. " Washington's acquaintance with Gage had begun twenty years earlier, in the Braddock campaign.... | |
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You affect, sir, to despise all rank, not derived from the same source with your own. I cannot conceive one more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.... 
