 | Education - 1858 - 424 pages
...who have made themselves. Our own Washington was a widow's son, an orphan boy. The historian says, "No Academy had welcomed him to its shades, no College, crowned him with its honors : toread — to write — to cypher, had been his degrees in knowledge. And at 16 years of agi>, in... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1855 - 516 pages
...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...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 - 1876 - 622 pages
...congress of Aixla-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, who had been born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland planter, and whose lot almost from infancy had been that of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1878 - 624 pages
...congress of Aixla-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, who had been born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland planter, and whose lot almost from infancy had been that of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1881 - 452 pages
...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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1881 - 426 pages
...congress of Aix-laChapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, who had been born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland planter, and whose lut almost from infancy had been that of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 602 pages
...Potomac, beneath the roof of a "Westmoreland planter, and whose lot almost from infancy had been that of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to its shades,...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 600 pages
...congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, who had been born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland planter, and whose lot almost from infancy Lad been that of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1888 - 594 pages
...Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland planter, and whose lot almost from infancy had been that of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to its shades,...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1888 - 596 pages
...congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, the woods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washington, who had been born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland planter, and whose lot almost from infancy had been that of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him... | |
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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... 
