 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
 | 1856 - 86 páginas
...and preserved of Providence to become the head of the nation ; as Rev. Samuel Davies expressed it, that " Providence has hitherto preserved him in so...manner for some important service to his country." The same expectation, becoming almost a premonition, has for years been general among the friends of... | |
 | John Pickell - 1856 - 216 páginas
...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." Colonel Washington continued in the military service of the colony until the termination of the campaign... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 422 páginas
...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." CHAPTER IX. Washington's Services as Commander of the Virginia Troops. COLONEL WASHINGTON was permitted... | |
 | 1856 - 848 páginas
..." 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 reader scarcely needs to be informed that Mr. Irving's account of this earlier portion of the life... | |
 | george bancropt - 1856 - 496 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,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 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." A remarkable prophecy, as thus uttered from the pulpit. " Who," said Lord Halifax, in a letter to a... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1856 - 846 páginas
...speaks of him, in language singularly prophetic, as ' an heroic youth whom Providence hath preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.' Davies died in 1761, at the early age of thirty-six, as President of Princeton College in New Jersey64.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 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,... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1856 - 268 páginas
...public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I can not but hope Providence has hitherto preserved, in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country."* How well this prediction was verified, the subsequent history of Washington has shown. In this engagement... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 501 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,... | |
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