 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1835 - 582 pages
...from fatigue duty on Sondays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The General is sorry to be informed, that the foolish...example as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and thai hoth they and the men will reflect, that we can ha\v little hope of the blessing of Heavon on... | |
 | 1840 - 406 pages
...quarters, in th« city of New York, August 3rd, 1776 :— "The general is sorry to he informed that tie foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and...growing into fashion ; he hopes the officers will, hy example as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that hoth they and the men will reflect... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1843 - 402 pages
...from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The General is sorry to be informed, that the foolish...known in an American army, is growing into fashion ; be hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 900 pages
...fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, and on special occasions, until further orders. The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish...he hopes the officers will, by example as well as by influence, endeavour to check it ; and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The General is sorry to be informed, that the foolish...the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1863 - 896 pages
...revolutionary war, he manifested the same abhorrence of profanity, alluding to it frequently in his orders. " The General is sorry to be informed, that the foolish...fashion ; he hopes the officers will, by example as well us influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 554 pages
...from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The general is sorry to be informed, that the foolish...the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of... | |
 | Marcellus F. Cowdery - Ethics - 1855 - 236 pages
...from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish...cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in the American Army, is growing into fashion ; he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 878 pages
...month after this, in the order of the day, Washington issued the following notice to the tf oops : "The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish...wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice hitherto little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes that the officers will,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 512 pages
...from fatigue duty on Sundays, except at the ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The general is sorry to be informed, that the foolish...army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers V0L. Ill—13 will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the... | |
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The general is sorry to be informed, that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. He hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor... 
