 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1856 - 396 pages
...and take this opportunity of expressing my sincere grief for having done, written, or said anything disagreeable to your excellency. My career will soon...the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration and esteem of these states, whose liberties you have asserted by your virtuea " I am with... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 422 pages
...and take this opportunity of expressing my sincere grief for having done, written, or said, any hing disagreeable to your Excellency. My career will soon...the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration, and esteem, of these States, whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues. I am, with... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 pages
...to Washington : — " PHILADELPHIA, 23d July, 1778. " SIR, — I find myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity...the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, 1778.] EXERTIONS IN BEHALF OF THE ARMY. 339 veneration and esteem of these States, whose liberties... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1857 - 570 pages
...penitential letter to Washington. PHILADELPHIA, 23 July, 1778. SIR : — I find myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity...and truth prompt me to declare my last sentiments. The capture of Burgoyne and his army was now operating with powerful effect on the cabinets of both... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1857 - 426 pages
...was addressed to him : "Philadelphia, July 23, 1778. "SiR, — I find myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity...and truth prompt me to declare my last sentiments. Yon are, in my eyes, the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration and esteem of... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1857 - 482 pages
...and take this opportunity of expressing my sincere grief for having done, written, or said anything disagreeable to your Excellency. My career will soon...the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration, and esteem of these States, -whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues. I am, with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 622 pages
...stl take this opportunity of expressing my sincere grief for having done, written, or said anything disagreeable to your Excellency. My career will soon...over, therefore justice and truth prompt me to declare mv last sentiments. You are in my eyes the great and good m«n. May you long enjoy the love, veneration,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1858 - 468 pages
...myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity to express my sin cere grief for having done, written, or said, any thing...the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration, and esteem of these states, whose libertiej you have asserted by your virtues." 1778. The... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1859 - 528 pages
...duel, and, supposing himself to be dying, wrote to Washington, " I find myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity...the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration and esteem of those States whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues." Gates, the... | |
 | Henry Simpson - Biography - 1859 - 1170 pages
...expressing "sincere grief for having done, written, or said anything disagreeable " to him ; adding, " My career will soon be over ; therefore, justice and...the great and good man. May you long enjoy the love, veneration, and esteem of these States, whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues." General... | |
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I find myself just able to hold the pen during a few minutes, and take this opportunity of expressing my sincere grief for having done, written, or said any thing disagreeable to your Excellency. My career will soon be over, therefore justice and truth... 
