 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...  The life of George Washington - Seite 39von John Marshall - 1804Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Royall Bascom Smithey - 1898 - 286 Seiten
...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 people's ease." He exerted himself to the utmost to stop the atrocities of the savages, building a fort at Winchester... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Chapman - 1900 - 248 Seiten
...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 people's ease." In Pennsylvania matters were in a still more lamentable case. Governor Morris summoned the Assembly... | |
 | Arthur Granville Bradley - 1900 - 438 Seiten
...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 people's ease." Washington was giving up a life of ease and comfort, neglecting an estate to whose management he was... | |
 | Richard Ellsworth Fast, Hu Maxwell - 1901 - 536 Seiten
...deadly sorrow that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I would offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." The Governor of Virginia, not knowing what he ought to do, was about to^-erder the FIGHTING FOR POSSESSION.... | |
 | Rowland H. Rerick - 1902 - 436 Seiten
...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 people's ease." Again, "It is not possible to conceive the situation and danger of this miserable country. Such numbers... | |
 | James Meeker Ludlow - 1902 - 346 Seiten
...all personal. Washington could say, " If I know my own mind, I could offer myself a living sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease. I would be a willing offering to savage fury and die by inches to save the people." Such a spirit is... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 540 Seiten
...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 people's ease. [" Lord Fairfax has ordered men from the adjacent counties, but when they will come, or in what numbers,... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 880 Seiten
...earlier years of border fighting. Then he had declared : "I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." He could "die by inches to save a people." During the Revolution he risked reputation, sacrificed popularity,... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1903 - 214 Seiten
...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 people's ease." Perhaps the vacillating Dinwiddie threw this letter down as too ardent a one for a military hand to... | |
 | 1904 - 430 Seiten
...earlier years of border fighting. Then he had declared, " I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." He could " die by inches to save a people." During the Revolution he risked reputation, sacrificed... | |
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