 These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self-defence, or in defence of their country and its rights ; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling...  Tufts College Graduate - Page 781901Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 632 pages
...choose in the order they are named. These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it...them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof. And now, having gone through these specific devises, with explanations for the more correct understanding... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 666 pages
...an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self-dofcnce, or in defence of their country and its rights ; and...them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof. And now, having gone through these specific devises, with explanations for the more correct understanding... | |
 | George Washington - Agriculture - 1847 - 220 pages
...choose in the order they are named. These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it...be for self-defence, or in defence of their country 48 and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 604 pages
...they are the words of Washington, " these swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it...them in their hands, to the relinquishment thereof." In his acts, Americans, you have seen the man. In the complicated excellence of character he stands... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 pages
...bequeaths his Swords to his nephews : — ' These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to nnsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it...self-defence, or in defence of their country and its liberties ; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed till the object be accomplished, and prefer... | |
 | Arts - 1850 - 270 pages
...bequeaths his swords to his nephews:—' These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it...self-defence, or in defence of their country and its liberties; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed till the object be accomplished, and prefer... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1853 - 638 pages
...choose in the order they arc named. These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it...unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their bauds to the relinquishment thereof. And now, having gone through these specific devises, with explanations... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 638 pages
...choose in the order they are named. These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it...them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof. And now, having gone through these specific devises, with explanations for the more correct understanding... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 406 pages
...choose in the order they are named. These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it...them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof. And now, having gone through these specific devises, with explanations for the more correct understanding... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 348 pages
...swords, or couteaux, of which I may die possessed ; and they are to choose in the order they are named. These swords are accompanied with an injunction not...and prefer falling with them in their hands to the relinquishmeut thereof." In the distribution of the swords hereby devised among the five nephews therein... | |
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