 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1903 - 354 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 the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Colorado - 1903 - 280 pages
...provisions in order to save Mount Vernon from damage, using these words: "It would have been less painful to me to have heard that in consequence of your non-compliance...with their request, they had burnt my hous.e and laid my plantation in ruins." His persistency is manifested by the fact that while Congress was considering... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 570 pages
...be spared. For this he received a severe reprimand in a letter to him in which Washington observed: "It would have been a less painful circumstance to...heard that in 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1905 - 594 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... | |
 | Charles Morris - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1907 - 682 pages
...flames, 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,... | |
 | 1908 - 572 pages
...the stern patriot wrote Lund Washington when he heard of the safety of Mount Vernon thus purchased: " It would have been a less painful circumstance to...they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruin. You ought to have considered yourself my representative." It is well known that both as soldier... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1908 - 500 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...consequence of your non-compliance with their request, that they had burnt my House and laid the Plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1910 - 162 pages
...Phillips's warships with provisions, whereupon Washington wrote him a strong rebuke. "It would," he writes, "have been a less painful circumstance to me to have...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid my plantation in ruins." But, whatever his own feelings were in this embarrassing... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1916 - 188 pages
...soldiers and sailors comfort and refreshment to save that beautiful estate, he wrote: 128 "Dear Lund: It would have been a less painful circumstance to...burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins." At last word came that the French fleet would soon be in Virginia waters, and Washington stole away... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Presidents - 1918 - 294 pages
...Verrion, "Uncle George" wrote indignantly: "It would have been less painful to me to have heard that they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in...representative, and should have reflected on the bad example!" At last, came the good news of French help, and "the Old Fox" slipped away from near New York. He was... | |
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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. 
