| 1832 - 564 pages
...gives me most concern is, that you should have gone on board the vessels of the enemy and furnished them with refreshments. It would have been a less...non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my home and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 248 pages
...the following letter : " SIR— It gives me extreme concern to hear that • you furnished the enemy with refreshments. It '• would have been a less...me, • to have heard, that, in consequence of your non• compliance with their request, they had laid my ' plantation in ruins. GEORGE WASHINGTON." BUT,... | |
| James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 294 pages
...proceeding, as will appear by the following extract of a letter to his overseer. " It would," he writes, " have been a less painful circumstance to me to have...heard that, in consequence of your non-compliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought to... | |
| John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 534 pages
...gone on board the vessels of the enemy and furnished them with refreshments. It would have been a lens painful circumstance to me to have heard, that in...non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my home and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to nave considered yourself as my representative,... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 pages
...manager the following letter: » SIR—It gives me extreme concern to hear that " you furnished the enemy with refreshments. It " would have been a less painful...me, '* to have heard, that, in consequence of your non" compliance with their request, they had laid ray «* plantation in ruins. GEORGE WASHUWTON." BUT,... | |
| Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 666 pages
...am very sorry to hear of your loss ; I am a little sorry to hear of my own ; but that which gives me most concern is, that you should go on board the enemy's...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - Presidents - 1840 - 256 pages
...the following letter : " Sir — -It gives me extreme concern to hear that you furnished the enemy with refreshments. It Would have been a less painful...of your non-compliance with their request, they had laid my plantation in ruins. GEOHGE WASHINGTON." But, among all his splendid acts of patriotism, there... | |
| Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...and requested that the buildings might be spared. For this Washington severely reprimanded him : " It would have been a less painful circumstance to...heard, that, in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in ruins. Yon ought to... | |
| Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1845 - 250 pages
...the general might be spared. Washington was indignant at this proceeding. " It would," he writes, " have been a less painful circumstance to me to have...heard that, in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in rums. You ought to... | |
| Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1846 - 250 pages
...the general might be spared. Washington was indignant at this proceeding. " It would," he writes, " have been a less painful circumstance to me to have...heard that, in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought to... | |
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