 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 604 páginas
...standard into the field ; and when it came to an end, you would withdraw into the shade of private life, and give the world another subject of wonder and applause;...victorious over its enemies, victorious over itself." In consequence of the circulation of these papers, the subsequent orders were issued on the llth of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1853 - 570 páginas
...the field ; and that when it should come to an end, you would withdraw into the shade of private life and give the world another subject of wonder and applause...victorious over its enemies — victorious over itself." This letter is now known to have been the production of Mr. John Armstrong, an American officer, and... | |
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... represent, also, that should they comply with the request of your late memorial, it would make you more happy and them more respectable ; that, while war should continue, you would follow their standard into the field ; and when it came to an end,... 
