He hopes 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 the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly. Added to this,... George Washington in Love and Otherwise - Page 144by Eugene Ernst Prussing - 1925 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 622 pages
...that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly...that every man of sense and character detests and despises it." — Orderly Book, August 3d, 1776. " Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 588 pages
...that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly;...that every man of sense and character detests and despises it." SIR, TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. New York, 5 August, 1776. The mode for the exchange... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1835 - 568 pages
...that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly;...that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.' " From the Orderly Book, August lat.—' It is with great concern, that the General understands... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1835 - 582 pages
...reflect, that we can ha\v little hope of the blessing of Heavon on our anus, if we insult it by our impie folly ; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptutj " every man of sense and character detests and despises it.' " From the Orderly Book, August... | |
| Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 pages
...that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of the blessing of heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly...that every man of sense and character detests and despises it." In a circular to the brigadier-generals, dated 26th of May, 1777, are the following instructions... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1837 - 620 pages
...that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly;...that every man of sense and character detests and despises it" — Orderly Book, August 3d, 1776. " Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged... | |
| 1837 - 486 pages
...that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have but little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly...that every man of sense and character detests and despises it." BIOGRAPHY. PROFESSOR JOHN W. FRANCIS, MD WHILE eloquence and mental philosophy, in almost... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 590 pages
...that both they and the men will reflect, that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly...temptation, that every man of sense and character dete»ts and despises it." TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. New York, 5 August, 1776. SIR, The mode for... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 588 pages
...that both they and the men will reflect, that •we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly...that every man of sense and character detests and despises it." TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. New York, 5 August, 1776. SIR, The mode for the exchange... | |
| 1840 - 406 pages
...Heaven on our arms if we insult it hy impiety and folly ; added lo this, it is a vice so mean and fow, without any temptation^ that every man of sense and character detests and desf,iscs it/' PLACE. As there is a time for everything, and every thing should he done at its time,... | |
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