 I would not be conscious of the acts you " presume to impute to me, for the whole continent of America, " though the wealth of worlds was in its bowels and a paradise  Life of George Washington - Stran 203avtor: Washington Irving - 1873Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Williams - 1809 - 496 strani
...American * troops. 4 BY this motive, and upon this only, I con' descend to inform you that I would not be * conscious of the acts you presume to impute *...continent of America, ' though the wealth of worlds were in its bowels, ' and a paradise upon its surface. ' IT has happened that all my transactions '... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 306 strani
...deed in these words: "By this motive and upon this only, I condescend to inform you that I would not be conscious of the acts you presume to impute to...bowels, and a paradise upon its surface." We have seen that Dr. Emmons has charged the British with having committed similar barbarities during the late... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 542 strani
...in these words : " By this motive, and upon this only, I condescend to inform you that I would not be conscious of the acts you presume to impute to...bowels, and a paradise upon its surface." We have seen that Dr. Emmons has charged the British with having committed similar barbarities during the late... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1838 - 568 strani
...encourage a more humane mode of warfare on their part. In, this letter Burgoyne said : — " I would not be conscious of the acts you " presume to impute to...in its bowels and a paradise " upon its surface."* In regard to the hapless fate of Miss M'Crea, General Burgoyne remarked : — " Her fall wanted not... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1838 - 540 strani
...encourage a more humane mode of warfare on their part. In this letter Burgoyne said : — " I would not be conscious of the acts you " presume to impute to...in its bowels and a paradise " upon its surface."* In regard to the hapless fate of Miss M'Crea, General Burgoyne remarked : — " Her fall wanted not... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1851 - 546 strani
...encourage a more humane mode of warfare on their part. In this letter Burgoyne said : — " I would not be conscious of the acts you " presume to impute to...in its bowels and a paradise " upon its surface."* In regard to the hapless fate of Miss M'Crea, General Burgoyne remarked : — " Her fall wanted not... | |
 | Henry Walter De Puy - 1855 - 452 strani
...inoffensive inhabitants. "I would not," he said in reply to General Gates, "be conscious of the acts yon presume to impute to me, for the whole continent of...was in its bowels, and a paradise upon its surface." The retreat of the American army from Ticonderoga, on the approach of Burgoyne, while it filled the... | |
 | Henry Walter De Puy - 1855 - 450 strani
...barbarities among unarmed and inoffensive inhabitants. " I would not," he said in reply to General Gates, "be conscious of the acts you presume to impute to...continent of America, though the wealth of worlds \vas in its bowels, and a paradise upon its surface." The retreat of the American army from Ticonderoga,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 570 strani
...respecting the cruelties of the Indians to be false, with the exception of the case of Miss McCrea. This he put in its true light, adding, that it had been...could and should have ascertained it, before " he pre* After General Gates had written his letter to Burgoyne, he called General Lincoln and myself into... | |
 | Henry Walter De Puy - 1861 - 436 strani
...barbarities among unarmed and inoffensive in habitants. "I would not," he said in reply to General Gates, "be conscious of the acts you presume to impute to...was in its bowels, and a paradise upon its surface." The retreat of the American army from Ticonderoga, on the approach of Burgoyne, while it filled the... | |
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