 | Baptists - 1850
...Aix-la-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born 07 the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland...the lot of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to it x shades, no college crowned him with its honors : to read, to write, to cipher, — these had been... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1841
...congress of Aix la Chapelle," says our author, " the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...crowned him with its honors : to read, to write, to cipher — these had been his degrees in knowledge. — And now, at sixteen years of age, in quest... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1841
...At the time of the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...him to its shades, no college crowned him with its honours : to read, to write, to cipher — these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Honor - 1841 - 36 pages
...the words of the historian of the United States,) the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...him to its shades, no college crowned him with its honours; to read, to write, to cipher—these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1841
...of the congress of Aix la Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington. Born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof...crowned him with its honors : to read, to write, to cipher — these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen years of age, in quest of an... | |
 | 1841
...la Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Bom by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a...crowned him with its honors : to read, to write, to cipher — these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen years of age , in quest of... | |
 | Religion - 1841
...congress of Aix la Chapelle," says our author, " the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...had welcomed him to its shades, no college crowned liim with its honors : to read, to write, to cipher — these had been his degrees in knowledge. —... | |
 | Theology - 1841
...Chapelle," says our author, "the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son af a widow. Born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer, almost his degrees in knowledge. — And now, at sixteen years of asre, in quest of an honest maintenance,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1843
...the very time of the congress of Aix la Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...crowned him with its honors : to read, to write, to cipher — these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen years of age, in quest of an... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1841
...the very time of the congress ol Aix la Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of...crowned him with its honors : to read, to write, to cipher — these had been his degrees in knowledge. And now, at sixteen years of age, in quest of an... | |
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Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer, almost from infancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to its shades, no college crowned him with its honors; to... 
