| United States - 1896 - 752 pages
...furnished them with abundant supplies. Washington was much displeased. He wrote to his agent: — " It would have been a less painful circumstance to...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,... | |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie - United States - 1896 - 750 pages
...furnished them with abundant supplies. Washington was much displeased. He wrote to his agent : — "It would have been a less painful circumstance to...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my \\ouse and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 532 pages
...It would have been a less painful circumstance to me," his uncompromising uncle had written him, " to have heard that, in consequence of your non-compliance...they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruin. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative." Kept though it was from harm, however,... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1896 - 1000 pages
...mischief. "It would have been a less painful circumstance to me," his uncompromising uncle had written him, "to have heard that, in consequence of your noncompliance...they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruin. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative." Kept though it was from harm, however,... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 376 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...my representative, and should have reflected on the 176 bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them... | |
| 1900 - 570 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...they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in rums. You ought to have considered yourself mv representative, and should have reflected on the bad... | |
| Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...mansion, furnished them with supplies. Washington was much displeased, and he wrote to his agent : "It would have been a less painful circumstance to...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruin. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 530 pages
...to furnish a supply of provisions. In a letter to his manager Washington reproved him for the act. " It would have been a less painful circumstance to...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned rny house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1901 - 650 pages
...vessels, 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 burned my house and... | |
| John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 568 pages
...consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British they had burned my house and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered...communicating with the enemy and making a voluntary offer of refreshment to them with a view to prevent a conflagration." To the other difficulties with which Washington... | |
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