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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, by James Munroe & Co., in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
And when he had succeeded, when Congress first, and afterwards the different States, had granted him the necessary means of making an army, his task was not finished; the busine...
6. Part 6It is much to have the wish to preserve a just medium; but the wish, though accompanied with firmness and ability, is not always enough to secure it. Washington succeeded in thi...
5. Part 5"We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the b...
1. Part 1Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, by James Munroe & Co., in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Ma...
7. Part 7None of these facts, none of these symptoms, escaped the vigilant sagacity of Washington. His natural taste for private life and the repose of Mount Vernon returned with double...
3. Part 3Washington accepted this difficult trust: and he soon found a new obstacle to surmount, a new danger to remove. No bond of union, no central power, had hitherto united the colon...
2. Part 2The government of Great Britain repelled them, sometimes by its silence, and sometimes by its measures, which were always a little indirect and reserved. The colonists were ofte...
8. Part 8"In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they wi...