Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-five Years: Commencing with the Battle of Lexington. Also, Sketches of His Own Life and Times, المجلد 1The Author, 1840 - 300 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 134 - From the oldest General in Europe to the greatest General in the world," he did but echo the sentiment of all the chivalry of Europe. Nor was the sentiment confined to Europe, nor...
الصفحة 299 - I believe I should have been a wise man ; but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed, the second from a late harvest, we lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, " like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.
الصفحة 129 - 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.
الصفحة 284 - ... houses, and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships, but we know not how to spare you. If you will consent to stay only one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty, and to your country, which you probably never can do under any other circumstances. The present is emphatically the crisis, which is to decide our destiny.
الصفحة 114 - Jew : You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven...
الصفحة 144 - Scotland, such was the high estimation in which he was held by all who knew him.
الصفحة 286 - At this moment Washington appeared in front of the American army, riding towards those of us who were retreating, and exclaimed, "Parade with us, my brave fellows! There is but a handful of the enemy, and we will have them directly.
الصفحة 3 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
الصفحة 13 - Harrington, and John Brown, Of Lexington, and Asahel Porter of Woburn, Who fell on this field, the first victims to the Sword of British Tyranny and Oppression, On the morning of the ever memorable Nineteenth of April, An. Dom. 1775. The Die was Cast ! ! ! The Blood of these Martyrs * In the cause of God and their Country, Was the Cement of the Union of these States, then Colonies, and gave the spring to the Spirit, Firmness And Resolution of their Fellow-Citizens.
الصفحة 286 - ... riflemen who were posted on the right to pick him off. Several made ready, but at that instant he wheeled about, and was out of their reach. Soon after this as we were descending a hill through an orchard, a party of the enemy who were entrenched behind a bank and fence, rose and fired upon us. Their first shot passed over our heads cutting the limbs of the trees under which we were marching.