| George Bancroft - 1876 - 614 páginas
...Virginia. " The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men," wrote Washington, " melt me into such deadly sorrow, that, for the people's...ease, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy." In Pennsylvania, measures of defence were impeded by the proprietaries, who, in... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 598 páginas
...flying with the utmost precipitation." ' Six days later he writes : " 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... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 594 páginas
...flying with the utmost precipitation." ' Six days later he writes : " 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... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - 1881 - 586 páginas
...and wretchedness vividly before us: "The supplicating tears of the women," he writes to Dinwiddie, " 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... | |
| John Lewis Peyton - 1882 - 420 páginas
...brings all this suffering and wretchedness vividly before us. He says : " 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... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1882 - 400 páginas
...having it in my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises. 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, that I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 páginas
...my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises." — " 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... | |
| George Bancroft - 1883 - 600 páginas
...Virginia. " The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men," wrote Washington, " melt me into such deadly sorrow that, for the people's...ease, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy." In Pennsylvania, measures of defence were impeded by the proprietaries, who, in... | |
| John Esten Cooke - 1883 - 578 páginas
...found the place full of refugees, and he wrote to Governor Dinwiddie : " 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... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1884 - 548 páginas
...while the murder of helpless families may be laid to 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 know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering... | |
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