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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
For Washington, parties weren't so much expressions of popular politics as their negation, denying the true will of the people as expressed through their chosen representatives.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
Light reading {by this, I mean books of little importance} may amuse for the moment, but leaves nothing solid behind.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
In his self-serving view of events, Lee believed that he had performed a prodigious feat, rescuing his overmatched army from danger and organizing an orderly retreat. "'The American troops would not stand the British bayonets," he insisted to Washington. "You damned poltroon," Washington rejoined, "you never tried them!" Always reluctant to resort to profanities, the chaste Washington cursed at Lee "till the leaves shook on the tree," recalled General Scott. "Charming! Delightful! Never have I enjoyed such swearing before or since.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
Many mickles make a muckle.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
The painting also pinpointed an important quirk of Washington's face: the lazy right eye that slid off into the corner while the left eye stared straight ahead. To prepare for the equestrian
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respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a nation.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
Reproaching his slave carpenters, he said, "There is not to be found so idle a set of rascals."28 Of a slave named Betty who worked as a spinner in the mansion, he complained that "a more lazy, deceitful and impudent hussy is not to be found in the United States."29 He"
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
Unable to curtail his free-handed spending and with his crops faring poorly, he started out 1786 with a paltry eighty-six pounds in cash.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
Unfortunately, Greene's personal finances were in no less disorderly a state than those of the country at large: he had accumulated such heavy debts guaranteeing contracts for the southern army that it gave him "much pain and preyed heavily upon my spirits."38 He also revealed to Washington in August 1784 that for two months he had experienced a "dangerous and disagree{able} pain" in his chest, which sounds like heart disease.39 In June 1786, while at his estate near Savannah, Georgia, he was seized at the table with a "violent pain in his eye and head," followed by his death a few days later.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
could see masts of submerged ships poking up from the water-and seeded the East River with spiked obstacles to thwart vessels.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
23 Destiny had now conferred upon Washington a pivotal place in
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