The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts, Հատոր 11Ferdinand Andrews, 1839 |
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... minister to try the pulse of the President . A compliance with Mr. Van Berckel's request , though seemingly a matter of form , involves number- less delicate and perhaps critical questions . In short , upon examining the consul's ...
... minister to try the pulse of the President . A compliance with Mr. Van Berckel's request , though seemingly a matter of form , involves number- less delicate and perhaps critical questions . In short , upon examining the consul's ...
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... minister in Holland , or from Mr. Monroe in Paris , we surely may look every moment for official information of the ... ministers in foreign countries over the consuls of their respective nations , particularly of the power of suspending ...
... minister in Holland , or from Mr. Monroe in Paris , we surely may look every moment for official information of the ... ministers in foreign countries over the consuls of their respective nations , particularly of the power of suspending ...
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... minister's house , and there burnt the treaty , and also before the door of the British consul , amidst the huzzas and acclamations of the multitude . Mr. Hammond , the British minister , complained of this in- dignity to the Secretary ...
... minister's house , and there burnt the treaty , and also before the door of the British consul , amidst the huzzas and acclamations of the multitude . Mr. Hammond , the British minister , complained of this in- dignity to the Secretary ...
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... minister in Philadelphia , and was given by him to Mr. Wolcott , Secretary of the Treasury , on the 28th of July . He immediately showed it to Mr. Pick- ering . In this letter the conduct and character of their colleague , the Secretary ...
... minister in Philadelphia , and was given by him to Mr. Wolcott , Secretary of the Treasury , on the 28th of July . He immediately showed it to Mr. Pick- ering . In this letter the conduct and character of their colleague , the Secretary ...
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... minister . After reading the letter , and conversing for some time on the subject of it with the President , he expressed a wish to examine it more at leisure before he made further remarks ; but said , that , considering the treatment ...
... minister . After reading the letter , and conversing for some time on the subject of it with the President , he expressed a wish to examine it more at leisure before he made further remarks ; but said , that , considering the treatment ...
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Էջ 153 - an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
Էջ 115 - House a copy of the instructions to the minister of the United States who negotiated the treaty with the King of Great Britain, together with the correspondence and other documents relative to that treaty, excepting such of the said papers as any existing negotiation may render improper to be disclosed.
Էջ 470 - The establishment of an Institution of this kind, upon a respectable and extensive Basis, has ever been considered by me as an object of primary importance to this Country; and while I was in the Chair of Government, I omitted no proper opportunity of recommending it, in my public speeches and other ways, to the attention of the Legislature.
Էջ 3 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare ; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government...
Էջ 9 - I cannot suffer you," replies Washington, " to close your public service, without uniting with the satisfaction which must arise in your own mind from a conscious rectitude, my most perfect persuasion that you have deserved well of your country. "My personal knowledge of your exertions, whilst it authorizes me to hold this language, justifies the sincere friendship which I have ever borne for you, and which will accompany you in every situation of life ; being, with affectionate regard, always yours,
Էջ 263 - I have finally determined to accept the commission 'of Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States ; with the reserve only that I shall not be called into the field until the Army is in a situation to require my presence, or it becomes indispensable by the urgency of circumstances.
Էջ 480 - Your confidence in me, sir, has been unlimited, and I can truly affirm unabused. My sensations, then, cannot be concealed, when I find that confidence so suddenly withdrawn, without a word or distant hint being previously dropped to me. This, sir, as I mentioned in your room, is a situation in which I cannot hold my present office, and therefore I hereby resign it.
Էջ 83 - I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced, we act for ourselves, and not for others.
Էջ 203 - I begin my diurnal course with the sun ; that, if my hirelings are not in their places at that time I send them messages of sorrow for their indisposition ; that, having put these wheels in motion, I examine the state of things further; that, the more they are probed, the deeper I find the wounds, which my buildings have sustained by an absence and neglect of eight years...
Էջ 262 - The conduct of the Directory of France towards our country; their insidious hostility to its government; their various practices to withdraw the affections of the people from it; the evident tendency of their...