 | Francis Parkman - America - 1910 - 438 pages
...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...enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease."1 In the turmoil around him, patriotism and public duty seemed all to be centred in the breast... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1910 - 576 pages
...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...enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease."1 In the turmoil around him, patriotism and public duty seemed all to be centred in the breast... | |
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 650 pages
...grow." "If I know my own heart," wrote Washington from Valley Forge, "I could offer myself as a living sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." I leave it to you if this is not the same keynote struck by these two men. I am tired of the talk which... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 434 pages
...resignation. "The supplicating tears of the women," he wrote, "and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow that I solemnly declare, if I know...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." George Washington, Henry Cabot Lodge, Vol. I, p. 85. Close of His Career as a Frontier Fighter So closed... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 848 pages
...are injured. " "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...myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, providing that would contribute to the people's ease. " [From a letter written when he was 24.] "Tiswell."... | |
 | William Edgar Geil - China - 1911 - 632 pages
...to submit, and the " rebel• Washington said: "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 living offering to the savage fury and die by inches to save the people." lion " was put... | |
 | Lady Matilda Ridout Edgar - History - 1912 - 380 pages
...Washington writes : ' The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men melt me into that deadly sorrow that I solemnly declare, if I know my...offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering ennemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.' In Annapolis, even, the terror was great.... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 822 pages
...kept the same spirit that animated him in the 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.8 He could "die by inches to save a people." During the Revolution he risked reputation, sacrificed... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1903 - 1038 pages
...Washington's love for his country spoke in these words: "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." Not less than this... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1914 - 284 pages
...moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my i>wn mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." It is no wonder that the constant anxiety and hardship which he endured undermined his health, and... | |
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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... 
