 | Aaron Bancroft - 1826 - 238 strani
...below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here. " The supplicating tears ef the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me...myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy f provided that would conduce to the people's ease." The inefficiency of the militia he thus portrayed.... | |
 | George Washington - 1834 - 574 strani
...my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...provided that would contribute to the people's ease. Lord Fairfax has ordered men from the adjacent counties, but when they will come, or in what numbers,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 strani
...my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...provided that would contribute to the people's ease. Lord Fairfax has ordered men from the adjacent counties, but when they will come, or in what numbers,... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - 1836 - 530 strani
...they found in arms. Washington, in a letter written during this period to the governor, observed— "The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." He was indefatigable in representing to the governor the wretched condition of the inhabitants, and... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 432 strani
...account here ! " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Two days after the above he wrote to the same : — " Not an hour, nay scarcely a minute, passes, that... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 strani
...my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, the moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...provided that would contribute to the people's ease ! ' And here I close the detail. You behold in this one extract your Washington, complete, mature,... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 strani
...supplicating tears of the women, the moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that 1 solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer...provided that would contribute to the people's ease ! ' And here I close the detail. You behold in this one extract your Washington, complete, mature,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 654 strani
...my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." These agonizing sensations were heightened by a circumstance here alluded to, the more painful because... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 658 strani
...my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." These agonizing sensations were heightened by a circumstance here alluded to, the more painful because... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 632 strani
...my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." These agonizing sensations were heightened by a cir- Fnise ™cumstance here alluded to, the more painful... | |
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The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I 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... 
