Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . nnounced theevent to his army, and ordered black crapeto be suspended from all the flags andStandards in the French service for tendays; and, on the eighth of February,1800, M. DeFontanes, b
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . nnounced theevent to his army, and ordered black crapeto be suspended from all the flags andStandards in the French service for tendays; and, on the eighth of February,1800, M. DeFontanes, by direction of Na-poleon, pronounced a funeral oration inhonor of Washington, in the presence ofBonaparte and the groat dignitaries of therealm, in which oration the illustrious do-ceased was declared to be a characterworthy the best days of antiquity. Of Washingtons personal appearance,little further need be remarked than thatit comported entirely with the solid gran-deur of his character. In respect to ^)/(»/-slque, no man could have been betterformed for command. A stature some-what exceeding six feet, a full but admir-ably-proportioned frame, calculated tosustain fatigue, without that heaviness which generally attends great muscularstrength and abates active exertion, dis-played bodily power of no mean light gray eye and full, firm forehead,Roman nose ; his mouth was peculiar of its. TOMU OF WASBIXOTOS. class—the lips firm, and the under jawscorning to gras[> the ujipcr with force, asif its nmsclos wore in full action when hesat still. It was Washingtons habit tofasten his eyes and steadily uponthose who wore iishorod into his presence,whether friend or foe, nor was it a slightordeal thus to moot his penetrating limbs were long, largo, and sinewy,and his frame was of equal breadth fromthe shoulders to the hips ; his joints werelarge, as were also his feet, and the greatsize of his hand never failed to attractattention. His gait and tread wa
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