 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 606 pages
...the service of God and their country, without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality. * * * * It is a noble cause we are engaged in ; it is the cause of virtue and mankind ; every advantage and comfort to us and our posterity depend upon the vigor of our exertions ; in short, freedom... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 512 pages
...in the service of God and their country, without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality. . . . It is a noble cause we are engaged in ; it is the cause of virtue and mankind ; every advantage and comfort to us and our posterity depend upon the vigor of our exertions ; in short, freedom... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 690 pages
...could address to his own troops such words as these : — " It is a noble cause we are engaged in — the cause of virtue and mankind ; every temporal advantage...conduct ; there can therefore be no greater inducement for men to behave well. But it may not be amiss for the troops to know that if any man in action shall... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 pages
...to do in the service of God and their country, without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality It is a noble cause we are engaged in ; it is the cause of virtue and mankind Freedom or slavery must be the result of our conduct ; there can, therefore, be no greater inducement... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1882 - 534 pages
...into the field of action, it is highly necessary that he should prepare his mind as well as everything necessary for it. It is a noble cause we are engaged...and comfort to us and our posterity depends upon the vigilance of our exertions. In short, slavery or freedom must be the result of our conduct; there can... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1882 - 526 pages
...into the field of action, it is highly necessary that he should prepare his mind as well as everything necessary for it. It is a noble cause we are engaged In, It Is the cause of virtue aud mankind, every temporal advantage and comfort to ns and our posterity depends upon the vigilance... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 pages
...the service of God and their country, without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality. * * * * It is a noble cause we are engaged in ; it is the cause of virtue and mankind ; every advantage and comfort to us and our posterity depend upon the vigor of our exertions ; in short, freedom... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1889 - 550 pages
...approaching when every man must expect to be drawn into the field of action, it is highly necessary that he should prepare his mind, as well as every...the result of our conduct, there can therefore be ni, greater Inducement to men to behave well : But it may not be amiss for the Troops to know, that... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - History - 1892 - 358 pages
...the field of action, it is highly necessary that he should prepare his mind, aa well SB everything necessary for it. It is a noble Cause we are engaged...mankind, every temporal advantage and comfort to us, and oar posterity depends upon the Vigor of our exertions ; in short, Freedom or Slavery must be the result... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1908 - 622 pages
...to do in the service of God and their country, without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality It is a noble cause we are engaged in ; it is the cause of virtue and mankind ; every advantage and comfort to us and our pos' terity depend upon the vigor of our exertions ; in short,... | |
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... upon the vigor of our exertions ; in short, freedom or slavery must be the result of our conduct ; there can, therefore, be no greater inducement to men to behave well. 
