 As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.  The Cambrian - Página 691892Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Joseph Sabin - 1873 - 586 páginas
...Public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a Manner for some important Service to his Country." See pages 9 and 12. DAVIES. A Sermon, Preached before the Reverend Presbytery of New-Castle, October... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1874 - 974 páginas
...as " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The retreat of Dunbar left the frontiers of Virginia and Pennsylvania at the mercy of the savages,... | |
 | 1874 - 992 páginas
...public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." DEARBORN, HENRY A. 8. Sketch of the Life of the Apostle Eliot, Prefatory to a Subscription for Erecting... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT. - 1874 - 492 páginas
...I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." " Who is Mr. Washington ?" asked Lord Halifax a few months later. " I know nothing of him," he added,... | |
 | William Menzies - 1875 - 496 páginas
...public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." 518 DAVIS (J.) Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America ; During 1798, 1799,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Bowen - 1876 - 210 páginas
...Braddock's defeat, Mr. Davies, who was addressing the volunteer company, used this Ianguage in allusion to Washington: " I cannot but hope that Providence has...some important service to his country." ' General Washington's family associations were with the descendants of the Welsh. His wife, Martha, whom he... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - 1876 - 1042 páginas
...• " That heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The First Va. presbytery was established through his efforts in 1755, and July 26, 1759, he succeeded... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1876 - 664 páginas
...speaking of that heroic youth, he adds : ' whom I can not but hope that Providence has hitrerto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country' — but even the Tndians were persuaded that he was under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 614 páginas
...I point out that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." " Who is Mr. "Washington?" asked Lord Halifax, a few months later. "I know nothing of him," he added,... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1894 - 446 páginas
...sermon as " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The early part of this war witnessed the tragic occurrence immortalized by Longfellow's "Evangeline,"... | |
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