 | Washington Irving - United States - 1887 - 666 pages
...the following indignant letter : — " With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to...ideas existing in the army, as you have expressed, and I must view them with abhorrence, and reprehend them with severity. For the present, the communication... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...of which he should be the head.] SIR: With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to...ideas existing in the army, as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity. For the present the communication of them... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 802 pages
...answered the letter in these words: "With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to...ideas existing in the army, as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity. For the present, the communication of them... | |
 | John Fiske - United States - 1888 - 670 pages
...the following indignant letter : — " With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to...ideas existing in the army, as you have expressed, and I must view them with abhorrence, and reprehend them with severity. For the present, the communication... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Presidents - 1889 - 376 pages
...and Washington replied as follows : — " With a mixture of surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to...ideas existing in the army as you have expressed, and [which] I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity. For the present, the communication... | |
 | United States. Joint Select Committee on Newburgh Centennial - Monuments - 1889 - 138 pages
...parade, and with a sense of shame that he should need to say in words what his whole life had expressed: "Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the...ideas existing in the Army as you have expressed and which I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity. * * * I am much at a loss to conceive... | |
 | United States. Joint Select Committee on Newburgh Centennial - Monuments - 1889 - 144 pages
...for it can not be read too often : Sir, with a mixture of great surprise and astonishment I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to...perusal. Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of this war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there being such ideas existing... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1891 - 562 pages
...MAY 22. At Head-quarters, Newburgh : " With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to...ideas existing in the army, as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity. ... I am much at a loss to conceive what part... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1891 - 568 pages
...MAY 22. At Head-quarters, Newburgh : " With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to...ideas existing in the army, as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity. ... I am much at a loss to conceive what part... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1891 - 542 pages
...LEWIS NICOLA. NEWBURG, 22 May, 1782. With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to...of there being such ideas existing in the army, as 1 The italicized parts of this letter were written in cypher, you have expressed, and I must view with... | |
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With a mixture of great surprise and astonishment, I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of there... 
