 | Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1896 - 124 páginas
...only to express the impression General Washington has left on my mind, the idea of a perfect whole. Brave without temerity, laborious without ambition,...prodigality, noble without pride, virtuous without se verity, he seems always to have confined himself within those limits beyond which the virtues, clothing... | |
 | 1900 - 1014 páginas
...birthday of the Hero of Mt. Vernon, among other toasts was the following : George Washington ; a man brave without temerity, laborious without ambition,...generous without prodigality, noble without pride, and virtuous without secrecy. Three cheers in pantomime for fear of disturbing the peace." Many other... | |
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Brave without temerity, laborious without ambition, generous without prodigality, noble without pride, virtuous without severity ; he seems always to have confined himself within those limits, where the virtues, by clothing themselves in more lively,... 
