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Excerpt from A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington: Faithfully Taken From Authentic Documents This truly great man, the third son of a Mr. Agustin Washington, was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, on the 22d day of February, 1732. He was the first son of a second marriage; a circumstance which ought, in all conference, to quiet the minds of those who have their doubts with respect to the lawfulness of second marriages. His education was of the private and proper sort. Dead languages, pride, and pedantry, had no charms for him who always preferred sense to found, the kernel to the shell. A grammatical knowledge of his mother-tongue - the mathematics - geography - history - natural and moral philosophy, were the valuable objects of his youthful studies: And in these he made the proficiency of one who always loved to go deep. At school he was remarkable for good nature and candour; qualities which acquired him so entirely the hearts of his young companions, that a reference to him was the usual mode of deciding all differences. After leaving his tutor he acted, for a few years, as a county surveyor, in which profession, his industry, as also the neatness and regularity with which he did every thing, were universally admired. In 1753, the French and Indians began to make inroads on our western frontiers along the Ohio. Governor Dinwiddie was very desirous to get a letter of remonstrance to their commander in chief. He had applied to several young gentlemen of his acquaintance; but they were all so exceedingly tender of their night-caps, that they could not be prevailed on, for love or money, to venture out among the savages. Washington happening to hear of it, instantly waited on his excellency, and offered his services, but not without being terribly afraid lest his want of a beard should go against him. However, the governor was so charmed with his modesty ad manly air, that he never asked him a syllable about his age, but, after thanking him for "a noble youth" and insisting on his taking a glass of wine with him, slipped a commission into his hand. 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.