 | United States. Adjutant-General's Office - 1923 - 870 páginas
...given me more painful sensations than your information ot there being such ideas existing in the Army. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself you...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable — ." He was consistent, too, in his love of country. No personal sacrifice was too great if by making... | |
 | Francis Joseph Dowd - 1923 - 422 páginas
...1881 him of the support of the army. Nicola received a stern rebuke from this great man, who replied, "If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to :jv ' Y'"K From Harper's Magazine, October, 1883 WASHINGTON REFUSING A DICTATORSHIP [2501 The Colonies... | |
 | 1924 - 430 páginas
...could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest michiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...schemes are more disagreeable. "At the same time, injustice to my own feelings, I must add that no man possesses a more serious wish to see ample justice... | |
 | Perry Belmont - 1925 - 652 páginas
...could have given encouragement to an address which seems to me big with the greatest mischief that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...add that no man possesses a more sincere wish to see justice done to the army than I do; and as far as my power and influence in a constitutional way extend,... | |
 | Perry Belmont - 1926 - 352 páginas
...could have given encouragement to an address which seems to me big with the greatest mischief that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...add that no man possesses a more sincere wish to see justice done to the army than I do; and as far as my power and influence in a constitutional way extend,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1929 - 940 páginas
...given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can liefall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...more sincere wish to see ample justice done to the Лгшу than 1 do ; and, as far as my powers and influence. In a constitutional way, extend, they... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 páginas
...have given encouragement to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs, that can befall my Country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. . . . Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your Country, concern for yourself or posterity,... | |
 | United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1932 - 636 páginas
...have given encouragement to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs, that can befall my Country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable." By this reply Washington saved America from internecine war. We need but to glance over the history... | |
 | Ann Fairfax Withington - 1996 - 301 páginas
...people drifting apart in the absence of a strong central government, Washington fired off his response: "[Y]ou could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable." 11 Garry Wills, in a suggestive biography, shows that Washington tried to exert political power by... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 páginas
..."astonishment," and "painful sensations" upon learning of "such ideas existing in the Army." To be sure, "no Man possesses a more sincere wish to see ample justice done to the Army," but he would pursue this only "as far as my powers and influence, in a constitutional way extend."... | |
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I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs, that cap befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found... 
