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 burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and... Works - Página 338por Washington Irving - 1857Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Horatio Hastings Weld - 1845 - 250 páginas
...noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in rums. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,...communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshment to them with a view to prevent a conflagration." CHAPTER IX. • 'LL Washington's plans... | |
| Horatio Hastings Weld - 1846 - 250 páginas
...have heard that, in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burned my house, and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought...communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshment to them with a view to prevent a conflagration." LIFE OF CHAPTER IX. ;LL Washington's plans... | |
| George Washington - 1847 - 618 páginas
...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in rums. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,...refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration. It was not in your power, I acknowledge, to prevent them from sending a flag on shore, and you did... | |
| United States. President - 1854 - 616 páginas
...circumstance to me to have heard, that in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burnt my house, and laid my plantation in...communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshment to them, with a view to prevent a conflagration." Though, in conducting the war, General... | |
| 1855 - 1226 páginas
...to me to have heard, that, in conscqucnco of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought...refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration." This is not a public letter, designed to meet the public eye, but a private, confidential one, revealing... | |
| George Washington - 1855 - 586 páginas
...that in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered...refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration. It was not in your power, I acknowledge, to prevent them from sending a flag on shore, and you did... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1855 - 714 páginas
...circumstance to me to have heard, that in consequence of your noncompliance with the request of the British, they had burnt my house, and laid my plantation in...communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshment to them, with a view to prevent a conflagration." Though, in conductmg the war, General... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1855 - 638 páginas
...that, in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative, and shpuld have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer... | |
| J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 páginas
...to me to have heard, that, in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought...refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration." This is not a public letter, designed to meet the public eye, but a private, confidential one, revealing... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 406 páginas
...that, in consequence of your noncompliance with their request, they had burnt my house, and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered...refreshments to them, with a view to prevent a conflagration. " It was not in your power, I acknowledge, to prevent them from sending a flag on shore, and you did... | |
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