Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 303
equencewas that inearly life, andin his firstoccupation assurveyor, andthrough thestirringevents of theFrench war,he built upcharacter day by day in a systematic endurance of hardship; in aconstant sacrifice of inclinations to duty; in taminghot passions into the service of reason; in… … George Washington. The Character of Washington 271 that whatever he knew he knew perfectly and forever,transmuting it into mind, and sending it forth inacts. Intellectual and moral principles, which other menlazily contemplate and talk about, he had learnedthrough a process which gave them the…
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