Maxims of Washington: Compiled for Use in Schools, Libraries, and All American HomesD. Appleton, 1894 - 423 páginas |
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... receive a double pleasure . Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of our hearts , no recommendation of mine is necessary , to fortify or confirm the attachment . None of them * will ever submit to the loss of those ...
... receive a double pleasure . Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of our hearts , no recommendation of mine is necessary , to fortify or confirm the attachment . None of them * will ever submit to the loss of those ...
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... receive too early and close an attention , and require prompt and decisive remedies . True to our duties and interests as Americans , firm to our purpose as lovers of peace , let NATIONAL POLICY . 97 Peace with other Nations.
... receive too early and close an attention , and require prompt and decisive remedies . True to our duties and interests as Americans , firm to our purpose as lovers of peace , let NATIONAL POLICY . 97 Peace with other Nations.
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... receive a check , and are not quite undone , we are apt to fancy we have gained a victory ; and , when we do gain any little advantage , we imagine it decisive , and expect the war immediately at an end . The history of the war is a ...
... receive a check , and are not quite undone , we are apt to fancy we have gained a victory ; and , when we do gain any little advantage , we imagine it decisive , and expect the war immediately at an end . The history of the war is a ...
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... received from the British nation were so unprovoked , and have been so great and so many , that they can never be forgotten . Besides the feuds , the jealousies , the animosities , that would ever attend a union with them ; besides the ...
... received from the British nation were so unprovoked , and have been so great and so many , that they can never be forgotten . Besides the feuds , the jealousies , the animosities , that would ever attend a union with them ; besides the ...
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... receive no considerable , if any , reinforcements . But suppose they should not , their remaining force , if well di- rected , is far from being contemptible . In the des- perate state of British affairs , it is worth a desperate ...
... receive no considerable , if any , reinforcements . But suppose they should not , their remaining force , if well di- rected , is far from being contemptible . In the des- perate state of British affairs , it is worth a desperate ...
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Página 50 - Western ; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is, to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound togtther by fraternal affection.