| United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1932 - 636 páginas
...name of our common country, as you value your sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character...civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood." . . . When he had finished he quietly withdrew. The officers were deeply moved by his words, and his... | |
| Ohio State University. Alumni Association - 1915 - 550 páginas
...our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character...your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates of civil discord and deluge our rising empire in blood." And... | |
| Peter S. Onuf - 1991 - 470 páginas
...manner" to press its case. With a final appeal to reason and virture and a plea to reject any wicked "attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord" and "deluge our rising empire in blood," Washington ended his formal speech." He then produced Joseph Jones's letter as proof of Congress's... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1996 - 230 páginas
...our common Country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the Military and National character...our Country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood Gates of Civil discord, and deluge our rising Empire in Blood. By thus determining, and thus... | |
| Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 páginas
...our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character...detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretenses, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates... | |
| Don Higginbotham - 2001 - 356 páginas
...officers "as you value your own sacred honor [my emphasis], as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the Military and National character...detestation of the Man who wishes, under any specious pretenses, to overturn the liberties of our Country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood Gates... | |
| 2002 - 366 páginas
...our common Country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the Military and National character...your utmost horror and detestation of the Man who wished, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our Country, and who wickedly attempts... | |
| John Ferling - 2003 - 576 páginas
...calling it an "insidious" and "shocking" document that betrayed both the army and the nation. It would "open the flood-gates of civil discord" and "deluge our rising empire in blood " he cautioned. He reminded the officers that Congress had "a variety of different interests to reconcile,"... | |
| Bruce Chadwick - 2005 - 595 páginas
...requested of them, "as you value your own sacred honor, as you respected the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character...detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretenses, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood gates... | |
| Washington Irving - 2005 - 417 páginas
...common coaatry, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as yon regard the military and national character of America,...horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country ; and who wickedly attempts to open the... | |
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