 | David Ramsay - 1832 - 278 Seiten
...gress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to officers of the army, for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...be allowed to say, it was the price of their blood, arid of your independency. It is, therefore, more than a common debt; it is a debt of honour; it can... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 604 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor ; it can never be considered... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 594 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor ; it can never be considered... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 596 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor; it can never be considered... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 596 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor; it can never be considered... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to Officers of the Army, for services then to be performed : It was the only means to prevent a total...to say it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is, therefore, more than a common debt, it is a debt of honour ; it can never be... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 594 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor ; it can never be considered... | |
 | George Washington - 1847 - 594 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor ; it can never be considered... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 Seiten
...Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...to say it was the price of their blood and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor." Although we have touched... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 586 Seiten
...Cojigress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total...say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor; it can never be considered... | |
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That provision should be viewed, as it really was, a reasonable compensation offered by Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total dereliction... 
