 | James D. McCabe - 1874 - 974 pagina’s
...spoke of him as " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The retreat of Dunbar left the frontiers of Virginia and Pennsylvania at the mercy of the savages,... | |
 | William Menzies - 1875 - 496 pagina’s
...out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." 518 DAVIS (J.) Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America ; During 1798, 1799,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 614 pagina’s
...dispensations of Providence, I have been protected." "To the public," said Samuel Davics, a learned New Jersey divine, in the following month, " I point out that...Halifax, a few months later. "I know nothing of him," he added, " but that they say he behaved in Braddock's action as bravely as if he really loved the... | |
 | Will Thomas Hale - 1900 - 278 pagina’s
...out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." Washington was again sent to Congress in 1775, and was soon unanimously elected commander in chief... | |
 | Jos. A. Waddell - 2009 - 562 pagina’s
...that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom," he says, " I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." Archibald Alexander was the executor of Benjamin Borden, the younger, and ancestor of the well-known... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pagina’s
...County, spoke of " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The next month Joseph Ball wrote to Washington from England : — "Goon Couz : — " It is a sensible... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - 1902 - 426 pagina’s
...prophetic, " to that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." In January, 1759, Washington was married to Mrs. Martha Custis, of the White House, county of New Kent.... | |
 | Eugene Parsons - 1903 - 192 pagina’s
...to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope, providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." 34. Having been appointed in 1756 to the chief command of a force of 2,000 men, he was engaged in the... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 540 pagina’s
...to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country."* [One author, with surprising misinformation and dependence on imagination, garnishes a meager sketch... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - 1903 - 478 pagina’s
...referred to him as " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." Washington was never wounded in battle ; he was shielded by the same protecting hand. CHAPTER XXII.... | |
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To the public," said Davis, a learned divine, in the following month, " I point out that heroic youth, Colonel "Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country. 
