 | Ezekiel Sanford - Indians - 1819 - 590 pages
...displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here.' And he adds, ' the supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing... | |
 | Paul Allen - United States - 1822 - 620 pages
...Virginia, he observes, "The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...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... | |
 | Paul Allen - United States - 1822 - 624 pages
...his propositions to that effect. In one of his letters to the Go vernour of Virginia, he observes, " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1834 - 574 pages
...incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...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... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...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... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 430 pages
...incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here ! " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...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... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 652 pages
...murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, the moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly...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... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 pages
...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 of the men, melt me with such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here ! The 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 myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 658 pages
...incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." These agonizing sensations were heightened by... | |
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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... 
