 | John Marshall - Generals - 1804 - 654 pages
...incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here. . " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Colonel Washington had been preventedfrom taking post at fort Cumberland, (the extreme position towards... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1804 - 648 pages
...incurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here. " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Colonel Washington had been prevented from taking post at fort Cumberland, (the extreme position towards... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 562 pages
...deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I eould offer myself a willingsacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Colonel Washington had been prevented from taking post at Fort Cumberland, the extreme position towards... | |
 | 1805 - 618 pages
...iacurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here. " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Colonel Washington had been prevented from taking post at fort Cumberland, (the extreme position towards... | |
 | Joseph Delaplaine - 1815 - 314 pages
...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 - Indians - 1819 - 590 pages
...flying before the barbarous foe. In fine, the melancholy situation of the people, the little prospect of assistance, the gross and scandalous abuses cast...that it would be impossible to defend so extensive a frontier, with short of two thousand men; that the woods seemed to be ' alive with French and Indians;'... | |
 | Paul Allen - United States - 1822 - 624 pages
...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,... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1834 - 574 pages
...my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...provided that would contribute to the people's ease. Lord Fairfax has ordered men from the adjacent counties, but when they will come, or in what numbers,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...my account here ! The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...provided that would contribute to the people's ease. Lord Fairfax has ordered men from the adjacent counties, but when they will come, or in what numbers,... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 pages
...they found in arms. Washington, in a letter written during this period to the governor, observed— "The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." He was indefatigable in representing to the governor the wretched condition of the inhabitants, and... | |
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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... 
