| Caleb Bingham - Readers - 1837 - 242 pages
...assistance I have received from my countrymen, increases with every review of .the momentous contest. 5. It was impossible the choice of confidential officers...more fortunate.- Permit me, sir, to recommend, in particidar, those who have continued in the service to the present moment, as worthy of the favourable... | |
| United States. Department of State - United States - 1837 - 560 pages
...momentous contest. While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place, the peculiar...and distinguished merits of the gentlemen who have heen attached lo my person during the war. It was impossible the choice of confidential officers to... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1838 - 596 pages
...momentous contest. While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge, in this place, the peculiar...attached to my person during the war. It was impossible that the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate. Permit... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 594 pages
...momentous contest. While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge, in this place, the peculiar...attached to my person during the war. It was impossible that the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate. Permit... | |
| William Grimshaw - United States - 1840 - 342 pages
...momentous contest. While I repeat my obligations to the army, in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings, not to acknowledge, in this place, the peculiar services, and distinguished merits, of those gentle men who have been attached to my person during the war. It was impossible the choice of... | |
| David Ridgely - Annapolis (Md.) - 1841 - 302 pages
...momentous contest. 'While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge, in this place, the peculiar...my family, should have been more fortunate. Permit me,'sir, to recommend, in particular, those who have continued in the service to the present moment,... | |
| John Trumbull - Painters - 1841 - 530 pages
...momentous contest. While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place, the peculiar...attached to my person during the war. It was impossible that the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate. Permit... | |
| Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...momentous contest. " While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place the peculiar services and distinguished merits of the persons, who have been attached to my person during the war. It was impossible that the choice of confidential... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1847 - 618 pages
...momentous contest. While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge, in this place, the peculiar...attached to my person during the war. It was impossible that the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate. Permit... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1847 - 474 pages
...should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge, in this place, the peculiar services an*i distinguished merits of the gentlemen who have been attached to my person during the war. It was impos5* aiblc the choice of confide. itial officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate.... | |
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