Statistics for occurrence #1 of “George Washington” in chapter 25, page 294 of Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2:
... Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, December 18, 1859.
Thank God for John Calvin.
To be sure, he burned Servetus; but the Puritans, or at least their immediate descendants, hung the witches; George Washington held slaves; and wherever you go up and down history, you find men, not angels.
Of course you find imperfect men, but you find great men; men who have marked their own age, and moulded the succeedi...
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