 | John Marshall - 1804 - 648 sider
...reap either honour or benefit: but on the contrary, have almost an absolute certainty of incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families...number of troops were stationed,) by an unfortunate and extraordinarydifficulty, growing out of an obscurity in the royal orders, respecting the relative rank... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 654 sider
...reap either honour or benefit: but on the contrary, have almost an absolute certainty of incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families...to the people's ease." Colonel Washington had been preventedfrom taking post at fort Cumberland, (the extreme position towards the enemy held by the Americans,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 sider
...reap either honour or benefit ; but, on the contrary, have almost an absolute certainty of incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families...sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would conduce to the people's ease." The inefficiency of the militia he thus pourtrays. " The inhabitants... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1807 - 486 sider
...supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly sorrow, that 1 solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrih'ce to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the peoples ease." Virginia presented... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 sider
...reap either honour or benefit ; but, on the contrary, have almost an absolute certainty of incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families...sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would conduce to the people's ease." The inefficiency of the militia he thus pourtrays, " The inhabitants... | |
 | 1809 - 574 sider
...helpless families may be laid to my account here. '.' The supplicating tears of the women, and the moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly...sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would conduce to the people's ease.' demned ; left to act and proceed at hazard ; accountable for the •... | |
 | Joseph Delaplaine - 1815 - 314 sider
...prospect. "The supplicating tears of the women/' he observes, in a communication to the governor, "and the moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly...enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's case." It was at this moment of alarm and peril, that Peyton Randolph stepped forward, with several... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 546 sider
...displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here.' And he adds, ' the supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease.' Such representations as these, at length, induced the assembly to resolve, that the Virginia regiment... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 590 sider
...displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here.' And he adds, ' the supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease.' Such representations as these, at length, induced the assembly to resolve, that the Virginia regiment... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 624 sider
...his propositions to that effect. In one of his letters to the Go vernour of Virginia, he observes, " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Thus the third year of the war was closed, without a solitary advantage to the cause of Great Britain,... | |
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The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the... 
