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Keim's Illustrated Hand-book, Washington and Its Environs: A Descriptive and ... - Page 105
by De Benneville Randolph Keim - 1874 - 252 pages
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Washington's Political Legacies: To which is Annexed an Appendix, Containing ...

George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 232 pages
...and gratefully remembered, affords no inconsiderable consolation. TAUGHT by the great example, which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request made by congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit me, and in doing this, I need not, I...
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Porcupine's Works: Containing Various Writings and Selections ..., Volume 12

William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 358 pages
...gratefully remembered, affords no inconsiderable consolation. " Taught by the great example, which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me, and in doing this I need not,...
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The Life of George Washington,: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 5

John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...and of which his secretary was the bearer, that lady answered, " taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request made by congress which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ;...and in doing this, I need not,...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the Armies of the ...

David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...and manner of her departed husband, and in the following words: " Taught by the great example which 1 have so long had before me, never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request made by congress, which you have had ihe goodness to transmit to me, and in doing this, I need not,...
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An Essay on the Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the ...

Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...resolutions of Congress to Mrs. Washington, to which she thus replied. " Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the publick will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit...
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Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army Through ...

Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...she thus replied. '. <» i-.'i --• . • . .,.-.. -..-.. v ..1: " Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ; and .in doing this, I: need not,...
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The Life of George Washington: First President, and Commander in Chief of ...

John Corry - 1809 - 262 pages
...remembered, affords no inconsiderable consolation. " Taught by the great example, which I have had so long before me never to oppose my private wishes to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me, and in doing this I need not —...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1829 - 998 pages
...and gratefully remembered, affords no inconsiderable consolation. Taught by that great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me; and, in doing this, I need not,...
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The Literary Panorama and National Register

English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...the President of the I'nitid States on the subject, she says — "Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress v», ich you have had the goodness to transmit to me; and in doing this, I need not,...
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Annual Register, Volume 58

Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...the President of the United States on the subject, she says — "Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ; and in doing this, I need not,...
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