 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 strani
...what can I do ? . . . 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...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." He had a difficult post to fill. A people in the exigencies of fear urging him for help on one side... | |
 | James Parton - 1878 - 792 strani
...vehement pathos. " The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men," he wrote, " melt me with such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare,...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." The county colonels were all in arms during that time of terror. Colonel John Madison, in Orange, the... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 598 strani
...later he writes : " 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." On the 24th he writes : " The deplorable situation of this people is no more to be described than my... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 594 strani
...later he writes : " 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." On the 24th he writes: " The deplorable situation of this people is no more to be described than my... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 420 strani
...petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, that I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." This letter called forth an order from the Governor for a force of militia from the upper counties... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1881 - 586 strani
...supplicating tears of the women," he writes to Dinwiddie, " 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." There are here revealed not only the miseries of the country and the trials of Washington's situation,... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1881 - 598 strani
...sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I fcnow ray own mind, I could offer myself a willing saerifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." There are here revealed not only the miseries of the country and the trials of Washington's situation,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 strani
...promises." — " 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." The unstudied eloquence of this letter drew from the governor an instant order for a militia force... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1882 - 420 strani
...us. He says : " 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...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." The campaign of 1755, closed by the failure of Braddock's expedition and that under Gen. Shirley against... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1882 - 588 strani
...supplicating tears of the women," he writes to Dinwiddie, "and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I conld offer myself a willing saerifice to the butchering enemy, provided that wonld contribute to the... | |
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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... 
