 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...his proudest and happiest moment. ' Sit down, Mr. Washington,' said he, with a conciliating smile, ' your modesty is equal to your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess.' " — Life of Patrick Henry, p. 45. the Potomac or Rappahannoc, as I am in immediate... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 pages
...his proudest and happiest moments. " Sit down, Mr. Washington," said he, with a conciliating smile; "your modesty is equal to your valor; and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess." In the town of , in Connecticut, where the roads were extremely rough, Washington... | |
 | Mann Butler - Kentucky - 1836 - 636 pages
...in that body ; this officer said, " Sit down, Mr. Washington, your mod*Sp*rks, vol. 11.— 325 esty is equal to your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess."* A succession of brilliant victories, from Ticonderoga to Quebec, finally compelled... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...happiest moments. " Sit down, Mr. Washington," said he, with a con-ciliating smile; " your modesty i> equal to your valor ; and that surpasses the power of any lan-guage that I possess." PATRICK HENRY. Patrick Henry was the son of Colonel Joba Henry, a native of Aberdeen,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1839 - 674 pages
...his proudest and happiest moments. " Sit down, Mr. Washington," said he, with a conciliating smile; " your modesty is equal to your valor; and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess." PATRICK HENRY. Patrick Heury was the son of Colonel John Heury, a native of Aberdeen,... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...happiest moments. "Sit <iown, Mr. Washington," said he, with a conciliating smile ; " your modestv is equal to your valor; and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess." In the town of , in Connecticut, where the roads wore extremely rough, Washington... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...trembled for a short time; when the Speaker relieved him by saying — " Sit down, Mr. Washington ; your modesty is equal to your valor .• and that — surpasses the power of any language that / posscsa," Proverb«. 1. A blylhe heart make» a bloomin R rttafff. 2. A deed done has an «nrf.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...trembled for a short time; when the Speaker relieved ^m by saying — " Sit down, Mr. Washington ; your modesty is equal to your valor ; and that — surpasses the power of any language that 7 possess." Proverbs. 1. A blylhe hear1 makes a blooming vieaffe. '2. A deed don« .ias an end.... | |
 | Henry Howe - Literary Criticism - 1845 - 616 pages
...him by a masterly stroke of address, saying, with a conciliating smile, " Sit down, Mr. Washington ; your modesty is equal to your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess." The " OLD RALEIGH TAVERN" is yet occupied as a public-house ; over the portico of... | |
 | John Frost - Conduct of life - 1846 - 332 pages
...proudest and happiest moments. " Sit down, Mr. Washington, " said he, with a conciliating smile ; " your modesty is equal to your valor ; and that surpasses the power of any language that I possess." MEMORY. ROFESSOR PORSON, when a boy at Eton School, discovered the most astonishing... | |
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Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess. 
