Excerpt from The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen Ared there wallis and sounds al f General Putnam's -killing whelps. Virtues that lay the llence - since it was to be Columbia's first care to present before the admiring eyes them his private character is hardly any thing. 5 For how have beeniin Washington to mancipation of his country; to have stemmed the long tide of adversity; to have baflled every ofl'ortof a wealthy and warlike nation; to, hav;erobtained for his countrymen the completest victory, and for himself the mostnnbonnded power andthen tdhanfi'et'urned that power, accompaniedimmer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.