 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 632 pages
...Prediction • ™ i °fWs fulore 1 may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel career. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." This was but the echo of the general voice, and it is a proof of the high estimation... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1840 - 354 pages
...praising the zeal and courage, which had been shown by the Virginia troops, the preacher added; "As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Generals - 1840 - 210 pages
...an eloquent preacher, Samuel Davies, who, in praising the courage of the Virginians, exclaimed, "As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1841 - 550 pages
...delivered, I think about 1762, and to the sentence last quoted was appended the following note : " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to...preserved in so signal a manner for some important services to his country." If suggestions I have more than once heard from aged and intelligent persons... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1841 - 594 pages
...martial fire through the country,'] I may point out," said he, " to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved, in so signal a manner,/or some important service to his country." " The celebrated Patrick Henry," says Dr. Green,... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...God had been pleased to diffuse some sparks of martial fire through the country," he adds — " as a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to...cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so great a manner for some important service to his country." On some other occasions he manifested his... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 620 pages
...good soldier; in a note to which he says, " I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." A similar sermon was preached to the militia, May 8, 1759, a few days before he left... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 562 pages
...which much important information relating to this war is inserted in this chapter. prophetic. " As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to...in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." In consequence of the desperate state of affairs, Gov. Dinwiddie convened the Assembly... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1845 - 250 pages
...the Rev. Mr. Davies, of Virginia, we find mention made by the author of " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." General Braddock was mortally wounded, and his few remaining soldiers then fled in every... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1846 - 250 pages
...the Rev. Mr. Davies, of Virginia, we find mention made by the author of " that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has...so signal a manner, for some important service to his country." General Braddock was mortally wounded, and his few remaining soldiers then fled in every... | |
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As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country. 
