 | 1848 - 534 pages
...is, that you should have gone on board the vessels of the enemy and furnished them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have beard, that in consequenceof your non.compliance with their request, they had burnt my home and laid... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...this he received a severe reprimand from tlie general, who in a letter to the agent observed, that " it would have been a less painful circumstance to...heard, that in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burnt my house, and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought to... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 638 pages
...most concern is, that you should go on board the enemy's vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...have considered yourself as my representative, and shpuld have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1855 - 714 pages
...this he received a severe reprimand from the general, who in a letter to the agent observed, that " it would have been a less painful circumstance to...heard, that in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burnt my house, and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...carry them refreshments, and " commune with a parcel of plundering scoundrels," as he termed them. " It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard," writes he, " that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 pages
...most concern is, that you should go on board the enemy's vessels and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 878 pages
...supplies. Washingion was much displeased, lie wrote to his agent : "It would have been a less pninfnl circumstance to me to have heard that, in consequence...non-compliance with their request, they had burnt ray house and laid tho plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 508 pages
...he termed them. " It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard," writes he, " that in consequence of your noncompliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and should have... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 550 pages
...carry them refreshments, and " commune with a parcel of plundering scoundrels," as he termed them. " It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard," writes he, " that in consequence of your noncompliance with their request, they had burnt my house... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 588 pages
...carry them refreshments, and "commune with a parcel of plundering scoundrels," aa he termed them. " It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard," writes he, "that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house... | |
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It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard, that, in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruins. 
