The Life and Memoirs of the Late Major General Lee: Second in Command to General Washington During the American Revolution, to which are Added His Political and Military Essays. Also, Letters to and from Many Distinguished Characters Both in Europe and America |
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Page 156 - Merchant, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in manner following: that is to say— I. I give and bequeath unto " The Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital...
Page 158 - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house ; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company while living, that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
Page 344 - It is the very error of the moon ; She comes more near the earth than she was wont; And makes men mad.
Page 159 - SWEARINGEN, two of the witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded ; and on the motion of the said executor who entered into bond with ADAM STEPHEN, esq.
Page 35 - GENERAL WASHINGTON TO GENERAL LEE. " Head-Quarters, English Town, 30 June, 1778. " SIR, " I received your letter (dated through mistake the 1st of July), expressed as I conceive in terms highly improper. I am not conscious of having made use of any very singular expressions at the time of meeting you, as you intimate. What I recollect to have said was dictated by duty, and warranted by the occasion. As soon as circumstances will permit, you shall have an opportunity of justifying yourself to the...
Page 159 - At a court held for Berkeley county the 15th day of April, 1783, this last will and testament of Charles Lee, deceased, was presented in court by Alexander White, one of the executors therein named, who made oath thereto according to law, and the same being proved...
Page 273 - You affect, Sir, to despise all rank not derived from the same source with your own. I cannot conceive one more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
Page 34 - I believe will close the war, retire from a service at the head of which is placed a man capable of offering such injuries. But at the same time, in justice to you, I must repeat that I from my soul believe, that it was not a motion of your own breast, but instigated by some of those dirty earwigs, who will...
Page 317 - I would as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth, as the Excellency with which I am daily crammed. How much more true dignity was there in the simplicity of address among the Romans ! Marcus Tullius Cicero, Decius Bruto Imperatori, or Caio Marcello Consuli, than to ' His Excellency Major-general Noodle,' or to the
Page 199 - We want you at New York; we want you at Cambridge; we want you in Virginia; but Canada seems of more importance than any of those places, and therefore you are sent there. I wish you as many laurels as Wolfe and Montgomery reaped there, with a happier fate.