Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature. Life of George Washington - Página 430por Washington Irving - 1857Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 822 páginas
...could such a thought be more disagreeable, he declared earnestly. "Let me conjure you, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself...for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind." When the country seemed indifferent to the deserts of the army, when there was talk of disbanding it... | |
| Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association - 1914 - 390 páginas
...of my abilities, to effect it, should there be any occasion. Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself...your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature. "I am, sir, &c., "GEORGE WASHINGTON." You can see, therefore,... | |
| New York (State). Governor (1777-1795 : Clinton) - 1904 - 612 páginas
...utmost of my abilities to effect it, should there be any occasion. Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your Country, concern for yourself or posterity, or respect for me, to banish tbese thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment... | |
| Edwin Wiley - 1915 - 800 páginas
...occasion. Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself and posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts...yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature. "I am, sir, Ac., " GEOBGE WASHINGTON." * Meanwhile, having an army of but 10,000 men, Washington had... | |
| James Alexander Macdonald - 1915 - 256 páginas
...basis, he might have become King. The proposal was made. "Let me conjure you," he replied, "if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself...me, to banish these thoughts from your mind." And they banished them. The idea of an American monarchy was suggested not alone by the exigencies of the... | |
| James Alexander Macdonald - 1915 - 250 páginas
...basis, he might have become King. The proposal was made. "Let me conjure you," he replied, "if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself...me, to banish these thoughts from your mind." And they banished them. The idea of an American monarchy was suggested not alone by the exigencies of the... | |
| Charles Evans Hughes - 1916 - 466 páginas
...monarchial power to establish a firm and just government, he replied : " Let me conjure you, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself...or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature." Ending his military labors, he expected, as he told his friends, to " move gently down the stream of... | |
| Matthew Page Andrews - 1916 - 450 páginas
...up the matter again. He closed his letter to that officer with the following words : " If you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity, or respect for me, banish these thoughts from your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment... | |
| Asa Don Dickinson, Helen Winslow Dickinson Dickinson - 1917 - 356 páginas
...me big with the greatest mischief that can befall any country. . . . Let me conjure you, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself...yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature I ETHAN ALLEN When Ethan Allen, the Green Mountain Boy, broke into Fort Ticonderoga at the head of... | |
| John Thomas Morris Johnston - 1917 - 662 páginas
...utmost of my abilities to effect it, should there be any occasion. Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself...your mind, and never communicate, as from yourself or anyone else, a sentiment of like nature." Such words can come only from a true patriot, a man whose... | |
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