 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 602 pages
...big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledgeof myself, you could not have found a person to whom...more sincere wish to see ample justice done to the army than I do ; and as far as my powers and influence, in a constitutional way, extend, they shall... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Industries - 1883 - 756 pages
...given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...feelings, I must add, that no man possesses a more serious wish to see ample justice done to the army than I do; and, as far as my power and influence,... | |
 | 1883 - 994 pages
...given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischief that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you, then, as you have regard for your country, for yourself, or posterity, or respect... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...that you may behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, " You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable." 2 the flower of mankind; ie, the best and most heroic of men. with your brothers and your neighbors,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pages
...that you may behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, " You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. " 2 the flower of mankind ; ie, the best and most heroic of men. with your brothers and your neighbors,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1884 - 588 pages
...to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I nm not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could...At the same time, in justice to my own feelings, I .nust add, that no man possesses a more sincere v/ish to see ample justice done to the army than I... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 620 pages
...existing in the army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 618 pages
...existing in the army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity,... | |
 | Rebecca McConkey - Cowpens, Battle of, Cowpens, S.C., 1781 - 1885 - 324 pages
...much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct should have given encouragement to such an address. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable," etc. The point of Morgan's scorn, in his Canadian prison eight years before, is not a whit less fine.... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1885 - 620 pages
...existing in the army as you have expressed, and I must view with abhorrence and reprehend with severity. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity,... | |
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I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found... 
