| George Washington - 1889 - 558 strani
...swelling for redress. But what can I do ? If bleeding, dying ! would glut their insatiate revenge, I would be a willing offering to savage fury, and die by inches to save a people ! I see their situation, know their danger, and participate their sufferings, without having it in... | |
| 1896 - 1056 strani
...could they, scattered as they were, meet these covert sallies in the dead of night — a sudden rusli of men with torches, the keen knife, the quick rifle?...of Braddock's defeat, in terms which could not be doubted sincere. In the very thick of his deep troubles, when he would have guarded the helpless people... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 476 strani
...solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease....of Braddock's defeat, in terms which could not be doubted sincere. In the very thick of his deep troubles, when he would hare guarded the helpless people... | |
| Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 strani
...swelling for redress. But what can I do ? If bleeding, dying ! would glut their insatiate revenge, I would be a willing offering to savage fury, and die by inches to save a people ! " " Hoping it will now be in our power to testify a just abhorrence of the cruel butcheries exercised... | |
| James Meeker Ludlow - 1902 - 346 strani
...could say, " If I know my own mind, I could offer myself a living sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease....offering to savage fury and die by inches to save the people." Such a spirit is unconquerable. The good word " beneficence " was first used in its French... | |
| John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 540 strani
...swelling for redress. But what can I do ? If bleeding, dying ! would glut their insatiate revenge, I would be a willing offering to savage fury, and die by inches to save a people. I see their situation, know their danger, and participate their sufferings, without having it in my... | |
| Frances Melville Perry, Henry William Elson - 1905 - 372 strani
...and treacherous. So great was the suffering of the people on the frontier that Washington declared, " I would be a willing offering to savage fury and die by inches to save the people." But his death would have been the gravest misfortune for his distressed countrymen. They... | |
| Henry Van Dyke - 1906 - 96 strani
...unrestrained: "If I know my own mind, I could offer myself a living sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease. I would be a living offering to the savage fury and die by inches to save the people." " The ever favorite object... | |
| George Washington - 1908 - 500 strani
...and swelling for redress. But what can I do? If bleeding, dying! would glut their insatiate revenge, I would be a willing offering to savage fury, and die by inches to save a people ! I see their situation, know their danger, and participate their sufferings, without having it in... | |
| William Edgar Geil - 1911 - 632 strani
...Washington said: "If I know my own mind, I could offer myself a living sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease: I would be a living offering to the savage fury and die by inches to save the people." lion " was put down in the... | |
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