Statistics for occurrence #1 of “George Washington” in chapter 4, page 78 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...as seventy-nine, but he was still writing as admirably as ever when he died at eighty-four.
We cannot dismiss this singular, varied, and fascinating American better than by quoting the letter which George Washington wrote to him in September, 1789.
It has the dignity and formality of the eighteenth century, but it is warm with tested friendship and it glows with deep human feeling: If to be venerated for benev...
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