 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - United States - 1896 - 750 pages
...with abundant supplies. Washington was much displeased. He wrote to his agent : — "It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my \\ouse and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
 | United States - 1896 - 752 pages
...with abundant supplies. Washington was much displeased. He wrote to his agent: — " It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 376 pages
...is, that you should go on board the enemy's vessels and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard,...my representative, and should have reflected on the 176 bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...is that you should go on board the enemy's vessels and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to -have heard...they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in rums. You ought to have considered yourself mv representative, and should have reflected on the bad... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - Portraits - 1900 - 382 pages
...ought to have considered yourself as my representative," Washington wrote with some indignation, " and should have reflected on the bad example of communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration. . . . To go on board their vessels, carry... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pages
...that you should go on board the enemy's vessels, and furnish them with refreshments. It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard,...communicating with the enemy, and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them with a view to prevent a conflagration." In such incidents as this Washington... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 650 pages
..."that in consequence of your noncompliance with their request they had burned my house and laid my plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered...communicating with the enemy and making a voluntary offer of refreshments to them, with a view to prevent a conflagration." In concluding his letter, he expresses... | |
 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...furnished them with supplies. Washington was much displeased, and he wrote to his agent : "It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned my house and laid the plantation in ruin. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 530 pages
...supply of provisions. In a letter to his manager Washington reproved him for the act. " It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard...of your non-compliance with their request, they had burned rny house and laid the plantation in ruins. You ought to have considered yourself as my representative,... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Colorado - 1903 - 280 pages
...provisions in order to save Mount Vernon from damage, using these words: "It would have been less painful to me to have heard that in consequence of your non-compliance...with their request, they had burnt my hous.e and laid my plantation in ruins." His persistency is manifested by the fact that while Congress was considering... | |
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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... 
