 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...  The life of George Washington - Sayfa 39John Marshall tarafından - 1804Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 648 sayfa
...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...number of troops were stationed,) by an unfortunate and extraordinarydifficulty, growing out of an obscurity in the royal orders, respecting the relative rank... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 654 sayfa
...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 people's ease." Colonel Washington had been preventedfrom taking post at fort Cumberland, (the extreme position towards the enemy held by the Americans,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 546 sayfa
...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 people's ease.' Such representations as these, at length, induced the assembly to resolve, that the Virginia regiment... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 590 sayfa
...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 people's ease.' Such representations as these, at length, induced the assembly to resolve, that the Virginia regiment... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 612 sayfa
...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 people's ease.*' Thus the third year of the war was closed, without a solitary advantage to the cause of Great Britain,... | |
 | 1832 - 564 sayfa
...laid to my account here." Colonel Washington had been prevented from taking post at fort Cumberland by an unfortunate and extraordinary difficulty, growing...commissioned by the king, and those commissioned by the governor. A Captain Dagworthy, who was at that place, and of the former description, insisted on... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 sayfa
...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 people's ease. Lord Fairfax has ordered men from the adjacent counties, but when they will come, or in what numbers,... | |
 | George Washington - 1834 - 574 sayfa
...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 people's ease. Lord Fairfax has ordered men from the adjacent counties, but when they will come, or in what numbers,... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 430 sayfa
...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 people's ease. " Two days after the above he wrote to the same : — " Not an hour, nay scarcely a minute, passes,... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 sayfa
...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 people's ease ! ' And here I close the detail. You behold in this one extract your Washington, complete, mature,... | |
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