| George Washington - Presidents - 1891 - 544 pages
...and with sentiments, &c. I am, &c. TO HENRY KNOX. MOUNT VERNON, 26 December 1786. MY DEAR SIR, * * * I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than...Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them ? Were these people wiser than others, or did they judge of us from the corruption and depravity of... | |
| United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Archives - 1905 - 854 pages
...Gen! Knox. pers, letter- book 6 A, PK». Transcript.] M()t VeniOIl 26th Dec' 1786. I feel, my d' Gen! Knox, infinitely more than I can express to you, for...could have foreseen — or a Briton predicted them. Were these people wiser than others? Or did they judge of us from the corruption & depravity of their... | |
| John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 566 pages
...Rhode Island alone refused. States. Good God ! who besides a Tory could have foreseen, or a Briton have predicted them? I do assure you that even at this moment, when I reflect upon the present aspect of our affairs, it seems to me like the visions of a dream. My mind can scarcely realize it... | |
| John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 574 pages
...to exercise them." To General Knox and other friends similar apprehensions were expressed. " I feel infinitely more than I can express to you for the disorders which have arisen in these money; but it was known that their favorite scheme was that of an agrarian law — a general division... | |
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1905 - 594 pages
...myself that I am not under the illusion of a dream." His letters to Knox show the trouble of his mind. " I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than...affairs, it seems to me to be like the vision of a dream After what I have seen, or rather what I have heard, I shall be surprised at nothing ; for, if three... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1905 - 390 pages
...in every State," wrote Washington, "which a spark might set fire to." * "I feel," he declared, "... infinitely more than I can express to you, for the...could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them?" The rebellion, therefore, by disclosing the danger, helped to bring about a reaction, strengthen the... | |
| Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - History - 1905 - 396 pages
...in every State," wrote Washington, "which a spark might set fire to." ' " I feel," he declared, "... infinitely more than I can express to you, for the...disorders, which have arisen in these States. Good God I Who, besides a Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them?" The rebellion, therefore,... | |
| Cooking - 1906 - 1026 pages
...state," wrote Washington, "which a spark might set fire to." Also, "I feel infinitely more than I can have arisen in these states. Good God ! Who besides...Tory could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them ?" And again : "Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures... | |
| Elroy McKendree Avery - United States - 1909 - 648 pages
..."I feel, my dear General December Knox, infinitely more than I can express to you, for the z6> Iy86 disorders which have arisen in these States. Good...Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them? . . . There are combustibles in every State which a spark might set fire to." "We find that we are... | |
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