 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
 | Charles Bingham Reynolds - Washington (D.C.) - 1924 - 192 pages
...not to onsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be in self defense or in defense of their Country and its rights, and in the latter...them unsheathed and prefer falling with them in their bands to the relinquishment thereof." Three of the swords are preserved here: (i) The one chosen by... | |
 | Eugene Ernst Prussing - Presidents - 1927 - 694 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." In the distribution of the swords hereby devised among the five nephews therein enumerated, the one... | |
 | Short stories, American - 1897 - 804 pages
...Justice of the Supreme Court. PMitktd by tht «mrlaf ./ Иг. йшЛг,^ Н'имЧп^м, „J dur/obm. its rights ; and in the latter case to keep them unsheathed, and to prefer falling with them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof." Another of the executors,... | |
 | United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1931 - 440 pages
...chuse 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...them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof." To one of the above-mentioned nephews, Bushrod, who was a prime favorite, he bequeathed a considerable... | |
 | George Washington - Government publications - 1931 - 704 pages
...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...them in their hands, to the relinquishment thereof. AND NOW Having gone through these specific devises, with explanations for the more correct understanding... | |
 | United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1932 - 636 pages
...swords were not to be unsheathed for the purpose of shedding blood "except it be for self defence, or in defence of their Country and its rights; and...them in their hands, to the relinquishment thereof." Speculation and Worthless Money "War Profiteers" were numerous during the American Revolution, and... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 pages
...them not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except for self-defense or in defense of their country and its rights, and in the latter case to keep them unsheathed, and to prefer falling with them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof. Washington's spyglasses are... | |
 | Reference - 1979 - 952 pages
...with the admonition (Ibid., P. 30) : "These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood except it be...them in their hands, to the relinquishment thereof ' '. In the division of the estate, George Lewis received a tract of 1300 acres which was part of Washington's... | |
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