 | Robert M. S. McDonald - 2004 - 264 pages
...Congress that "a material feature" in the improvement of the nation's defenses might be "to afford an opportunity for the study of those branches of the military art which can scarcely ever be attained by practice alone." George Washington, Fifth Annual Message, 3 December 1793, in Saul... | |
 | United States. President - 1858 - 802 pages
...in the scheme ; and whether a material feature in an improvement of it ought not to be to afford an opportunity for the study of those branches of the military art which can scarcely ever be attained by practice alone. The connexion of the United States with Europe has become extremely... | |
 | 1891 - 1270 pages
...in the scheme; and whether a material feature in an improvement of it ought not to be to afford an opportunity for the study of those branches of the military art which can scarcely ever be attained by practice alone. [President Washington, 1794.] The devising and establishing of... | |
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States," has organized them so as to produce their full effect ; whether your own experience in the several States has not detected some imperfections in the scheme ; and whether a material feature, in an improvement of it, ought not to be to afford an... 
