Download or read book Life of Washington, Vol. 1 of 3 written by Benson J. Lossing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Washington, Vol. 1 of 3: A Biography Personal, Military, and Political AT the close Of the Civil War, in which the Government founded by washington and his compatriots vindicated its rightful authority and the truth that an enlightened people may be safely invested with political sovereignty, it seems to be an appropriate service to present to that people a full record of the life and times of their great leader, to whom the lovers of liberty in all lands pay the homage of profound veneration. He will ever appear in History as the central figure of the group of statesmen who fashioned a Re public out of several independent colonies, and established a Nation upon the representative principle which makes Democracy compat ible with a stable and powerful central government, having the form of an Aristocracy, but absolutely responsible to, and under the control of the People. 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.