 | David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...the senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honour to the memory of the MAN,, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." The senate of the United States, on this event, addressed the president in these words: 1 1 " The "... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 376 pages
...sixty-eighth year of bis age,, died the fattier of 4iis country, "the man first in war, first in ptiice, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." This...the se'rVices and virtues of the hero and sage, and exhibited a people not insensible to his worth. General Washington was rather above the common stature;... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1824 - 434 pages
...orations were delivered, and the best talents devoted to an expression of grief, at the loss of '' the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." Section VII. In 1800, agreeably to a resolution passed in congress in 1 790, the seat of government... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...full possession of his intellect, he expired without a struggle. Thus, on the 14th of December. 1799, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. died the father of his country, "the man fmst in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his Fellow-citizens." This event spreada gloom... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 1824 - 524 pages
...full possession of his intellect, he expired without a struggle. Thus, on the 14th of December, 1799, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, died the father...the services and virtues of the hero and sage, and exhibited a people not insensible to his worth. MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH WARREN, Was the first officer... | |
 | Presidents - 1825 - 460 pages
...possession of his intellect, he expired without a struggle. Thus, on the fourteenth of December, 17911. in the sixty-eighth year of his age, died the father of his country, i The man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.i This event... | |
 | John Warner Barber - United States - 1828 - 280 pages
...Funeral orations were delivered, and the best talents devoted to an expression of grief, at the loss of " the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellowcitizens." — Goodrich's Hist. U. States. (96.) Dr. Franklin's experiments in Electricity. In the summer of 1... | |
 | Statesmen - 1829 - 432 pages
...full possession of his intellect, he expired without a struggle. Thus, on the 14th of December, 1799, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, died the father...the services and virtues of the hero and sage, and exhibited a people not insensible to his worth. General Washington was rather above the common stature... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...the Senate, be appointed, to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honour to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." The Senate addressed a letter to the president, in which they said, "Permit us, sir, to mingle our... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...in them has been often quoted and admired.— ED. 6* able manner of paying honour to the memory of the Man first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." The Lessons of Death. — NORTON WHEN such men are taken from us, we are made to feel the instability... | |
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Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens. 
