| United States. President - Presidents - 1858 - 802 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 hous*, and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought lo... | |
| 1880 - 668 pages
...other officers' wives, causing a great change in the appearance and customs of tLe place. She quence of your non-compliance with their request, they had...burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins." But the nation's long and gloomy night was to be succeeded by a glorious dawn ! October made herself... | |
| George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 616 pages
...enemy's vessels and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to mo to have heard, that, in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid my ¡limitation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
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