 | John Davison Lawson - 1916 - 944 strani
...make to your Excelk-ncy at this serious period, and which is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, Sir, that if... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1916 - 944 strani
...make to your Excellc-ncy at this serious period, and which is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier •will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, Sir, that if... | |
 | ERNEST PEIXOTTO - 1917 - 398 strani
...Arnold. But military law, then as now, was inflexible, and even his last touching appeal to Washington "to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor," and not to allow- him "to die on a gibbet," had to be denied. So on the 2d of October, 1780,... | |
 | Robert Charlwood Richardson - 1917 - 448 strani
...not be rejected. Sympathy toward a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, Sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, if aught... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1898 - 684 strani
...make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, Sir, that if... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 692 strani
...make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, Sir, that if... | |
 | Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - 1996 - 354 strani
..."Sympathy towards a soldier," he pleads, "will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor." André adds that he and Washington together can hope to put all resentment behind them 40.... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - 2000 - 426 strani
...make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adopt a mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope, Sir, that if... | |
 | Harriet Guest - 2000 - 362 strani
...decision to use the rope was itself less than genteel. Andre appealed to Washington before his execution: Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adopt ["adapt"?] the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour. Let me hope,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 2002 - 680 strani
...make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. Let me hope, Sir, that if... | |
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Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor. 
