 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 804 pages
...charge, before it had formed alliances, and while it was without funds or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with...transmit their fame to posterity. You have persevered, until these United States, aided by a magnanimous king and nation, have been enabled, under a just... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...to support him ; to the wisdom and fortitude with which he had conducted the great military contest, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power, through all disasters and changes. "You retire," added he, " from the theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens ; but the... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 604 pages
...public life." Under the moving influence of female tears, the President replied, acknowledging " his wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights...the civil power through all disasters and changes." — " Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world," he remarked, " having taught a lesson... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 870 pages
...charge before it had formed alliances, and while it was without ftmd§ or a Government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with...the civil power through all disasters and changes. " I regret, sir, that truth compels me to say that such a speech could not be made now to 304 305 those... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...charge before it had formed alliances, and while it was without funds or a Government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with...the civil power through all disasters and changes. " I regret, sir, that truth compels me to say that such a speech could not be made now to those who... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 858 pages
...charge before it bad formed alliances, and while it was without funds or a Government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with...the civil power through all disasters and changes. " I regret, sir, that trnth compels me to »ay that such a speech could not be made now to 304 305... | |
 | William Read Staples - Constitutional law - 1870 - 778 pages
...charge before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without funds or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with...rights of the civil power through all disasters and charges. You have, by the love and confidence of your fellow citizens, enabled them to display their... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1871 - 608 pages
...charge before it had formed alliances, and while it was without friends or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with...fellow-citizens, enabled them to display their martial genins, and transmit their fame to posterity. You have persevered till these United States, aided by... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 672 pages
...charge before it had formed alliances, and while it was without funds or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with...the civil power through all disasters and changes." Such was Washington through all the disasters and changes of a seven years' war, while combating invasion... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 pages
...charge before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without funds or government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with...power through all disasters and changes. You have persevered till these United States, aided by a magnanimous king and nation, have been enabled, under... | |
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Called upon by your country to defend its invaded rights, you accepted the sacred charge before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without friends or a government to support you. " You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and... 
