| Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1857 - 544 pages
...sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises." — " 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." The unstudied eloquence of this letter drew from... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 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." Some difficult questions of subordination arising... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1857 - 472 pages
...account here. " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to tho.bulchering ene jiy, provided that would conduce to t!ie people's ease ' The inefficiency of the... | |
| Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 566 pages
...give them further relief than uncertain promises. " • — " The supplicating tears of the women, mid moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know iny own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would... | |
| American essays - 1872 - 806 pages
...despatch from the frontier which startles every reader of his letters by its burst of 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, if I know my own mind, I could... | |
| Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - Virginia - 1858 - 352 pages
...letter he says, "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 con tribute to the people's ease." As the only remedy for disasters which threatened,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1859 - 498 pages
...their sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises." " 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." The unstudied eloquence of this letter drew from... | |
| E. Cecil - Presidents - 1859 - 292 pages
...their sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises 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." On receiving this letter, the Governor immediately... | |
| J. T. Headley - 1859 - 528 pages
...drink, and he exclaims : " The supplicating tears of the womer , and moving petitions of the men, melt 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." It was enough to move a heart of stone, to see... | |
| Charles Campbell - Virginia - 1860 - 766 pages
...barbarous foe, Washington, in view of the inadequate means of protection, wrote to Governor Dinwiddie: "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." In this sentence we find the key to his whole... | |
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