 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 528 páginas
...answer ; and I ask you to accept this statement as my testimony, derived from the experience which is my lot. Yes, fellow-citizens, had this test prevailed...forth to France, with the commission of the infant Kepublie, to secure the invaluable alliance of that ancient kingdom, — nor could John Jay, as first... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 644 páginas
...years which has been my lot under the commission which I have received from our honored Commonwealth. Yes, fellow-citizens, had this test prevailed in the...Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence ; and P'ranklin could not have gone forth to France, with the commission of the infant Republic, to secure... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 páginas
...the humblest citizen, may all be summed up in that grand apotheosis of eulogy, namely, that he was " FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF His COUNTRYMEN." It will be of interest, however, in this place, to glance at the estimate of Washington held by some... | |
 | 1877 - 814 páginas
...calamity ; the loss cf a man was never more deeply felt or more sincerely mourned than was that of George Washington — " First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." GENERAL LAFAYETTE. ARIE Jean Paul Roch Yoes Gilbert Metier Lafayette, a French Marquis and statesman,... | |
 | 1921 - 494 páginas
...this very city of Philadelphia, who delivered a funeral elegy on Washington in which he called him "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." I may add here that there was no kin between Charles Lee and the Lees of Virginia,... | |
 | Mark Sibley Severance - 1878 - 538 páginas
...known. " Of course I am ! " said Goldie, the provoker. " You never knew a fellow like me before, — first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his country's cousins ! " "I'm sorry for the cousins," said Ellen, with mock gravity. " But, George dear,... | |
 | Charles William Adam Tait - 1878 - 236 páginas
...Independence. 1775—1782. Pp. 754—758. a George Washington commander of the colonial army. " The man first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow-countrymen." b The battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775, and siege of Boston by the colonists.... | |
 | William Banks Slaughter - 1878 - 318 páginas
...appointed Chief Justice of the United States. They express the public sorrow at the loss of him who was " first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens." This expression is repeated in the funeral oration pronounced by Gen. Lee at the... | |
 | Richard Taylor - 1879 - 292 páginas
...take ken of the affairs of this world, the soul of Light Horse Harry rejoices that his own eulogy of Washington, " First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," is now, by the united voice of the South, applied to his noble son. 7 • Foregoing criticisms have... | |
 | 1879 - 54 páginas
...forlorn; And lived and died where he was corn, In Old Vir-Ein-i-ia, In Old Virginia. Sina. chonte. First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. (Minuft.) He gambled, drank and swore like mad, Of fighting ne'er did tire; But he had such a lovely... | |
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First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799. 
