| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...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...willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Some difficult questions of subordination arising in the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises." — " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." The unstudied eloquence of this letter drew from the governor... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...account here. " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to tho.bulchering ene jiy, provided that would conduce to t!ie people's ease ' The inefficiency of the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...give them further relief than uncertain promises. " • — " The supplicating tears of the women, mid moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know iny own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would... | |
| 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 806
...despatch from the frontier which startles every reader of his letters by its burst of vehement pathos. " The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men," he wrote, "melt me with such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could... | |
| Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...letter he says, "The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would con tribute to the people's ease." As the only remedy for disasters which threatened, otherwise,... | |
| E. Cecil - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...their sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." On receiving this letter, the Governor immediately ordered... | |
| Washington Irving - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...their sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief than uncertain promises." " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." The unstudied eloquence of this letter drew from the governor... | |
| J. T. Headley - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...drink, and he exclaims : " The supplicating tears of the womer , and moving petitions of the men, melt such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I...willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." It was enough to move a heart of stone, to see that young... | |
| Charles Campbell - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 766
...barbarous foe, Washington, in view of the inadequate means of protection, wrote to Governor Dinwiddie: "The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions...willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." In this sentence we find the key to his whole character... | |
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