 | Mason Locke Weems - 1918 - 322 pages
...letter: " Sir — It gives me extreme concern to hear that you furnished the enemy with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...of your non-compliance with their request, they had laid my plantation in ruins. " GEORGE WASHINGTON." But, among all his splendid acts of patriotism,... | |
 | Sons of the American Revolution. Massachusetts Society - Massachusetts - 1923 - 272 pages
...refreshments to an enemy vessel and "Commune with a parcel of plundering scoundrels." Washington added: "It would have been a less painful circumstance to...with their request, they had burnt my house and laid my plantation in ruins." The commentators lay emphasis on the tact and courtesy which marked Washington's... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 474 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...non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my home and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1903 - 338 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,... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - History - 1998 - 1012 pages
...concern is that you should go on board the enemys Vessels and furnish them with refreshments . . . You ought to have considered yourself as my representative...on the bad example of communicating with the enemy . . . I . . . believe that your desire to preserve my property and rescue the buildings from impending... | |
 | Robert F. Dalzell, Lee Baldwin Dalzell - Architecture - 2000 - 324 pages
...came quickly. An angry letter went off to Lund with a copy and covering note to "My dear Marquis." "It would have been a less painful circumstance to...burnt my House, and laid the Plantation in ruins," fumed Washington to Lund, adding: "You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and... | |
 | Genealogy - 1905 - 854 pages
...home of the absent master and mistress, sends the supplies. He receives a letter from Gen. Washington. '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... | |
 | Stanley Weintraub - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 240 pages
...been "a less painful circumstance to me," Washington fumed to his cousin, "to have heard that in cause of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house, and left my plantation in ruins. You should have behaved yourself as my representative, and reflected on... | |
 | Donald T Phillips - Fiction - 2006 - 412 pages
...ill judged. It is a bad example of communicating with the enemy and will be a precedent for others. It would have been a less painful circumstance to...had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. "I am, however, thoroughly persuaded that you acted from your best judgment and believe that your desire... | |
 | CHARLES MORRIS - 1907 - 752 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,... | |
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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. 
