 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavouring to avoid another ; but the less must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 580 pages
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavouring to avoid another ; but the less must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavoring to avoid another ; but the less must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 588 pages
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavouring to avoid another ; but the less must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment OF any subordinate department... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 554 pages
...mercenary spirit pervades the whole, that I should not be surprised at any disaster that may happen. * * * Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command." Xo one drew closer to Washington in this... | |
 | Industries - 1856 - 680 pages
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavoring to avoid another; but the leas must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and am likely to. experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department... | |
 | E. Cecil - Presidents - 1859 - 292 pages
...the prospect. We have been till this time (Nov. 28) enlisting about three thousand five hundred men Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command." On the 1st of December, the Connecticut... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 498 pages
...mercenary spirit pervades the whole, that I should not be surprised at any disaster that may happen. * * * Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command." No one drew closer to Washington in this... | |
 | James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 pages
...mercenary spirit pervades the whole, that I should not be surprised at any disaster that may happen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and...am likely to experience, no consideration on earth should have induced me to accept this command." Those who have studied the history of the Revolutionary... | |
 | Charles Tennant - United States - 1863 - 330 pages
...mercenary spirit pervades the whole, that I should not be surprised at any disaster that may happen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and...am likely to experience, no consideration on earth should have induced me to accept this command."* These national characteristics are correctly traced... | |
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Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command. 
