 Virginia who was among us and very well known to all of us, a gentleman whose skill and experience as an officer, whose independent fortune, great talents, and excellent universal character, would command the approbation of all America, and unite the...  The True George Washington - Page 297by Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pages
...Virginia, who was among us NOMINATION OF CZXMANDEE-IN-CHIEF. 517 and very well known to all of us ; a gentleman, whose skill and experience as an officer,...colonies better than any other person in the Union. Mr. Washington, who happened to sit near the door, as soon as he heard me allude to him, from his usual... | |
 | James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1852 - 764 pages
...and appoint Col. Washington commander of it, Mr. Adams remarked, that he was "a gentleman whose skill as an officer, whose independent fortune, great talents,...approbation of all America, and unite the cordial exertion of all the colonies better than any other person in the Union. Mr. Washington. who happened... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1854 - 564 pages
...and spoke of him as " a gentleman from Virginia who was among us and very well known to all of us, a gentleman whose skill and experience as an officer,...colonies better than any other person in the Union. Mr. Washington, who happened to sit near the door, as soon as he heard me allude to him, from his usual... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...Congress adopt the army at Cambridge, and appoint a General. He declared his preference for Washington, as 'a gentleman whose skill and experience as an officer,...colonies better than any other person in the Union. Mr. Washington, who happened to sit near the door, as soon as he heard me allude to him, from his usual... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1855 - 566 pages
...command, and that was a gentleman from Virginia, who was among us, and very well known to all of us ; a gentleman, whose skill and experience as an officer,...colonies better than any other person in the Union. Mr. Washington, who happened to sit near the door, as soon as he heard me allude to him, from his usual... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 pages
...command, and that was a gentleman from Virginia, who was among us, and very well known to all of us ; a gentleman, whose skill and experience as an officer,...approbation of all America, and unite the cordial exertion of all the colonies better than any other person in the Union. Mr. Washington, who happened... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 498 pages
...command, and that was a gentleman from Virginia, who was among us and very well known to all of us; a gentleman, whose skill and experience as an officer,...colonies better than any other person in the Union. Mr. Washington, who happened to sit near the door, as soon as he heard me allude to him, from his usual... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Mount Vernon - 1859 - 86 pages
...skill as an officer, his position, his talents, his superior character, were declared such as " would unite the cordial exertions of all the colonies better than any other person in the Union." Mark that word Union, my young friends, now first used on a most solemn public occasion — a word... | |
 | Charles Campbell - Virginia - 1860 - 766 pages
...indomitable advocate of independence, had, on a previous occasion, recommended him for the post, as " a gentleman, whose skill and experience as an officer,...colonies better than any other person in the union." Mr. Adams had discovered that the preference of the Southern members for Washington was very strong.... | |
 | Charles Campbell - History - 1860 - 772 pages
...indomitable advocate of independence, had, on a previous occasion, recommended him for the post, as " a gentleman, whose skill and experience as an officer,...colonies better than any other person in the union." Mr. Adams had discovered that the preference of the Southern members for Washington was very strong.... | |
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