 | Samuel Eliot Morison - United States - 1927 - 496 pages
...wrote Washington. ' I feel infinitely more than I can express for the disorders which have arisen. Good God ! Who besides a Tory could have foreseen, or a Briton have predicted them ? ' Some conservatives turned in despair to monarchy. The President of Congress... | |
 | Edward Rondthaler - Moravians - 1928 - 552 pages
...discouraged. He wrote on the day after Christmas, 1786, to an old comrade of the Revolution, "I feel infinitely more than I can express to you for the disorders which have arisen in these States. It is scarcely within the reach of human ken, at this moment, to say when, where or how it will terminate.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 pages
...all will be convinced, that the superstructure is bad, or wants support." Also to Knox, December 26: "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 their... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...Massachusetts is, I am exceedingly obliged to you for the advice respecting them;. . .1 feel, my dear Genl. Knox, infinitely more than I can express to you, for...tory could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them! were these peopie wiser than others, or did they judge of us from the corruption and depravity of their... | |
 | Genealogy - 1921 - 800 pages
...contemptible figure we are about to make in the annals of manIcind." (To D. Humphreys, December J26, 1786.) " I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than...Tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them? . . . When this spirit first dawned, probably it might have been easily checked. There are combustibles... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Civil rights - 2004 - 762 pages
...opposition in the way to divide and crumble them." And in a letter to General Knox he says : " I feel infinitely more than I can express to you, for the...Good God! Who besides a Tory could have foreseen, 20 THE POLITICAL RIGHTS OF Cobb, who had been in Washington's military family during the war, was major-general... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 417 pages
...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 I can express to you, for the disorders which hare arisen in these States. Good God ! who, besides a tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted... | |
 | 279 pages
...the trouble in Massachusetts would spawn uprisings in other states. "I feel . . . infinitely morethan I can express to you, for the disorders which have arisen in these states," Washington confided to Henry Knox, one of his most trusted subordinates from Continental Army days.... | |
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I feel, my dear General Knox, infinitely more than I can express to you, for the disorders which have arisen in these States. Good God ! who, besides a tory, could have foreseen, or a Briton predicted them... 
