 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...dearest rights and liberties of his country." In an order issued on the 3d of August, he says he " is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked...the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavour 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 664 pages
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 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 608 pages
...ship-yards, or on special occasions, until further orders. The General is sorry to be in-1 formed, that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing...the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavour 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... | |
 | E. Cecil - Presidents - 1859 - 292 pages
...he excused them from certain kinds of work on Sundays, that they might go to church ; and adds : " The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish...known in an American army — is growing into fashion It is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests... | |
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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... 
