 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...regard to the public good. I have not, nor could I have, any private attachments; every gentleman in appointment was a stranger to me, but from character;...great at General Putnam's promotion, that he left the army without visiting me, or making known his intention in any respect. General Pomroy had also... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 580 pages
...regard to the public good. I have not, nor could I have, any private attachments; every gentleman in appointment was a stranger to me, but from character;...great at General Putnam's promotion, that he left the army without visiting me, or making known his intention in any respect. General Pomroy had also... | |
 | John Fellows - 1843 - 258 pages
...regard to the public good. " I have not, nor could I have, any private attachments ; every gentleman in appointment was a stranger to me, but from character....favorable construction of my conduct in this particular. Gen. Spencer's disgust was so great at Gen. Putnam's promotion, that he left the army without visiting... | |
 | John Fellows - 1843 - 250 pages
...Cambridge, 10th of July, 1775. " I have not, nor could I have, any private attachments ; every gentleman in appointment was a stranger to me, but from character....their most favorable construction of my conduct in this.particular. Gen. Spencer's disgust was so great at Gen. Putnam's promotion, that he left the army... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 588 pages
...regard to the public good. I have not, nor could I have, any private attachments; every gentleman in appointment was a stranger to me, but from character;...great at General Putnam's promotion, that he left the army without visiting me, or making known his intention in any respect. General Pomroy had also... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...attachments ; every gentleman in appointment was a stranger to me, but from character. * * * • * ' General Spencer's disgust was so great at General Putnam's promotion, that he left the army without visiting me, or making known his intention in any respect. ' General Pomroy had also... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 422 pages
...regard to the public good. " I have not, nor could I have, any private attachments ; every gentleman in appointment was a stranger to me, but from character...great at General Putnam's promotion, that he left the army without visiting me, or making known his intention in any respect. " General Pomroy had also... | |
 | Increase Niles Tarbox - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1876 - 422 pages
...have not, and could not have, any private attachments ; every gentleman in appointment was an entire stranger to me, but from character ; I must therefore rely upon the candor of the Congress for their favorable construction of my conduct in this particular. General Spencer... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1905 - 548 pages
...the like circumstances did on that of Spencer." Previously, in the same letter Washington wrote that General Spencer's disgust was so great at General...me or making known his intention in any respect." It was evident that the appointment of these general officers had not corresponded with the wishes... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1887 - 122 pages
...regard to the public good. I have not, nor could I have, any private attachments ; every gentleman in appointment was a stranger to me, but from character;...great at General Putnam's promotion, that he left the army without visiting me, or making known his intention in any respect. General Pomroy had also... | |
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In such a step, I must beg the Congress will do me the justice to believe, that I have been actuated solely by a regard to the public good. I have not, nor could... 
