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George Washington
From the portrait by Gilbert Stuart
This canvas, valued at $60,000, hangs in the Masonic Lodge rooms atFredericksburg, Virginia. It is one of the several portraits ofWashington which the artist began executing in 1795 and which are themost famous of both artist and sitter. Of our First President, thiscelebrated painter has also given us his interesting pen-picture ofhis subject: "All of his features were indications of the strongestand most ungovernable passions, and had he been born in the forest, hewould have been the fiercest man among the savage tribes."
THE
LIFE
OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
COMMANDER IN CHIEF
OF THE
AMERICAN FORCES,
DURING THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THE INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTRY,
AND
FIRST PRESIDENT
OF THE
UNITED STATES.
COMPILED UNDER THE INSPECTION OF
THE HONOURABLE BUSHROD WASHINGTON,
FROM
ORIGINAL PAPERS
BEQUEATHED TO HIM BY HIS DECEASED RELATIVE, AND NOW IN POSSESSION OFTHE AUTHOR.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,
AN INTRODUCTION,
CONTAINING A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE COLONIES PLANTED BY THE ENGLISHON THE
CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA,
FROM THEIR SETTLEMENT TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THAT WAR WHICH TERMINATEDIN THEIR
INDEPENDENCE.
BY JOHN MARSHALL.
VOL. III.
THE CITIZENS' GUILD
OF WASHINGTON'S BOYHOOD HOME
FREDERICKSBURG, VA.
1926
Printed in the U.S.A.
THESE VOLUMES
of The Sponsors' Edition
OF THE AUTHORIZED LIFE OF
George Washington
by John Marshall
ISSUED IN ITS ORIGINAL FORMAT, BUT WITH THE TEXT OF THE REVISED EDITION, HAVEBEEN SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR
Henry H. Kimball
Transcriber's Note: In the original book, some propernames are spelled inconsistently. The inconsistencies have been preserved inthis e-text. For the reader's information, the first of each of the followingpairs of names is the correct spelling: Wemys/Wemyss, Tarleton/Tarlton;Dundass/Dundas; M'Lane/M'Clane; Viominel/Viominil.