 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1909 - 632 páginas
..."I feel, my dear General December Knox, infinitely more than I can express to you, for the l6> I?86 disorders which have arisen in these States. Good...Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them? . . . There are combustibles in every State which a spark might set fire to." "We find that we are... | |
 | Frank Buffington Vrooman - 1911 - 308 páginas
...might set fire to." He spoke of the disorders of the rampant individualism of the States, and cried, "Good God, who, besides a Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted, them." During these days Washington wrote that "Even respectable characters" were talking without horror of... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - 1915 - 414 páginas
...Washington wrote : " There are combustibles in every State which a spark might set fire to. ... I feel . . . infinitely more than I can express to you, for the...disorders which have arisen in these States. Good God I Who, besides a Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton, predicted them?" Rightly or wrongly, men of... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1915 - 422 páginas
...Washington wrote: "There are combustibles in every State which a spark might set fire to. ... I feel . . . infinitely more than I can express to you, for the...disorders which have arisen in these States. Good God I Who, besides a Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton, predicted them?" Rightly or wrongly, men of... | |
 | Charles McClellan Stevens - 1917 - 222 páginas
...first condition and was again many out of one. In 1786, in a letter to General Knox, Washington wrote, "I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than...moment, when I reflect upon the present prospect of affairs, it seems to me to be like the vision of a dream. After what I have seen, or rather what I... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1920 - 220 páginas
...a substantial government. "Good God I" ejaculated Washington, speaking of the dangers of the time. "Who, besides a Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them." "We find that we are men," wrote Knox, "actual men, possessing all the turbulent passions belonging... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 1922 - 326 páginas
...he wrote : "There are combustibles in every State which a spark might set fire to. ... I feel . . . infinitely more than I can express to you, for the...could have foreseen, or a Briton, predicted them?" 11 The instability and tumult of the times drove home to the substantial classes of the population... | |
 | John Clement Fitzpatrick - 1924 - 348 páginas
...contemptible figure we are about to make in the annals of mankind. (To D. Humphreys, December 26, 1786.) I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than...these states. Good God! Who besides a Tory, could have foreBeen, or a Briton predicted them? . . . When this spirit first dawned, probably it might have been... | |
 | Augusta Emma Stetson - 1924 - 1448 páginas
...closely watched to prevent encroachments, might restore us. Letter to Henry Knox, December 26, 1786. I feel, my dear General Kno'x, infinitely more than...disorders, which have arisen in these States. Good God! Who . . . could have foreseen, or ... predicted them? Letter to Henry Knox, February j, i?S7If ... any... | |
 | John Marshall - 1926 - 552 páginas
...my dear General Knox," said he, in answer to the letter from which the foregoing extracts are taken, "infinitely more than I can express to you, for the...who besides a tory could have foreseen, or a Briton have predicted them? I do assure you that even at this moment, when I reflect upon the present aspect... | |
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I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than I can express to you, for the disorders which have arisen in these States. Good God ! who, besides a tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them... 
