 After reiterating their grievances, " we are sorry," added they, " that you should imagine we meant to disobey orders. It was and is still our determination to march with our regiment, and to do the duty of officers until the Legislature shall have a...  Works - Página 244por Washington Irving - 1857Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Marshall - 1805 - 666 páginas
...virtues ;.... that executing your orders has ever given us pleasure;... that we love the service, and we love our country; but when that country gets so lost...then becomes their duty to retire from its service." This letter of justification was peculiarly embarrassing. To adopt a stern course of proceeding would... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 páginas
...ability and virtue, tliat executing your orders has ever given us pleasure ; we love the service, and we love our country ; but when that country gets so lost...then becomes their duty to retire from its service." This attempt in the officers to justify their conduct placed General WASHINGTON in a very critical... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1807 - 486 páginas
...ever given us pleasure — that we love the service, and we love our country; but when that country is so lost to virtue and justice as to forget to support...then becomes their duty to retire from its service r" The ground adopted by the officers for their justification was such as interdicted a resort to stern... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 páginas
...ability and virtue, that executing your orders has *ver given us . pleasure ; we love the service, and we love our country ; but when that country gets so lost...then becomes their duty to retire from its service." This attempt in the officers to justify their conduct placed General Washington in a very critical... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 páginas
...ability and vii> (ue, that executing your orders has ever given us pleasure ; we love the service, and we love our country ; but when that country gets so lost...to virtue and justice as to forget to support its sei> rants, it then becomes their duty to retire from its service." This attempt in the officers to... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1814 - 274 páginas
...that we love the service, and we love our country ; but when that country is so lost to virtue and to justice as to forget to support its servants, it then becomes their duly to retire from if 5 service ." The ground adopted by the officers for their justification, was... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 436 páginas
...no longer. We beg leave to assure your excellency, that we have the highest sense of your abilities and virtues; that executing your orders has. ever...country gets so lost to virtue and justice- as to forget its servants, it then becomes their duty to retire from its service." In communicating this transaction... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1829 - 460 páginas
...service, and love our country; but when that country gets so lost to virtue and justice as to forget its servants, it then becomes their duty to retire from its service." In communicating this transaction to Congress, Gen. Washington says, " that the distresses in some... | |
 | 1832 - 564 páginas
...; — that executing your orders has ever given us pleasure ; — that we love the service, and we love our country; — but when that country gets so lost to virtue and justice «e to forget to support its servants, it then becomes their duty to retire from its service." This... | |
 | John Marshall - 1836 - 534 páginas
...virtues ; — that executing your orders has ever given us pleasure; — that we love the service, and we love our country; — but when that country gets so-...then becomes their duty to retire from its service." This letter was peculiarly embarrassing. To adopt a stern course of proceeding might hazard the loss... | |
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