 | Louis Austin Warren - 1926 - 450 pages
...fixed themselves upon my memory more than any single revolutionary event. I recollect thinking even then, boy even though I was, that there must have...something more than common that these men struggled for, that something more than National Independence, that something, that held out a great promise to all... | |
 | Charles Garrett Vannest - 1928 - 288 pages
...themselves in my memory more than any single Revolutionary event ; and you all know, for you all have been boys, how these early impressions last longer...something more than common that these men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that that thing which they struggled for, . . . that something that held out... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 584 pages
...hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves on my memory more than any single Revolutionary event ; and you all know, for you have all been boys,...something more than common that these men struggled for. Abraham Lincoln became the owner of Weems' Life of Wasliington through an accident. He borrowed the... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 486 pages
...the Hessians. His thoughts went back to his first childhood readings in history: You all know . . . how these early impressions last longer than any others....there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that thai thing which they struggled for; that something... | |
 | Waldo Warder Braden - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 278 pages
...the liberties of the country and the great hardships of that time fixed themselves on ... my memory. I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that the thing which they struggled for; that something... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...in Philadelphia's Independence Hall, he emphasized a cause that, for him, was much bigger than war: "I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for." The war had been for more than "National Independence . . . this Union, the... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...Jersey remarks that began with Parson Weems quickly moved to the real point of the fathers' greatness: I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that that thing which they struggled for, that something... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 418 pages
...Hessians. His thoughts went back to his first childhood readings in history: . . . you all know . . . how these early impressions last longer than any others....there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that that thing which they struggled for; that something... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...had suffered for the great cause of national independence, for the right to govern themselves. But: I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that that thing which they struggled for; that something... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...Trenton, I told the New Jersey senate about my reading of Weems and said that I had thought then, boy though I was, that there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I was exceedingly anxious, I said, to protect that "thing" which they struggled... | |
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The crossing of the river; the contest with the Hessians; the great hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves on my memory, more than any single revolutionary event ; and you all know, for you have all been boys, how these early impressions... 
