Note 45 — Chapter IV · The Warrior, the Statesman, and the Planter.
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“One is tempted to smile at this tirade about the ‘insolence of the people,’ and this zeal for ‘his majesty’s service,’ on the part of Washington; but he was yet a young man and a young officer. What he thus terms insolence was the dawning spirit of independence, which he was afterward the foremost to cherish and promote.”—Irving’s Life of Washington, vol. i. p. 215.