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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... "
The History of Virginia, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - Page 254
by Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - 1853 - 328 pages
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The Life of George Washington,: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 2

John Marshall - 1804 - 654 pages
...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...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Colonel Washington had been preventedfrom taking post at fort Cumberland, (the extreme position towards...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 2

John Marshall - 1804 - 648 pages
...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...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Colonel Washington had been prevented from taking post at fort Cumberland, (the extreme position towards...
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The life of George Washington, Volume 2; Volume 272

John Marshall - 1804 - 562 pages
...deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I eould offer myself a willingsacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Colonel Washington had been prevented from taking post at Fort Cumberland, the extreme position towards...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 2

1805 - 618 pages
...iacurring displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here. " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease." Colonel Washington had been prevented from taking post at fort Cumberland, (the extreme position towards...
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An Essay on the Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the ...

Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...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...sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would conduce to the people's ease." The inefficiency of the militia he thus pourtrays. " The inhabitants...
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Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army Through ...

Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...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...sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would conduce to the people's ease." The inefficiency of the militia he thus pourtrays, " The inhabitants...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

1809 - 574 pages
...helpless families may be laid to my account here. '.' The supplicating tears of the women, and the moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly...sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would conduce to the people's ease.' demned ; left to act and proceed at hazard ; accountable for the •...
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Delaplaine's repository of the lives and portraits of distinguished American ...

Joseph Delaplaine - 1815 - 314 pages
...prospect. "The supplicating tears of the women/' he observes, in a communication to the governor, "and the moving petitions of the men, melt me with such deadly...enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's case." It was at this moment of alarm and peril, that Peyton Randolph stepped forward, with several...
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A History of the United States Before the Revolution: With Some Account of ...

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 546 pages
...displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here.' And he adds, ' the supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease.' Such representations as these, at length, induced the assembly to resolve, that the Virginia regiment...
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A History of the United States Before the Revolution: With Some Account of ...

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 590 pages
...displeasure below, while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here.' And he adds, ' the supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions...provided that would contribute to the people's ease.' Such representations as these, at length, induced the assembly to resolve, that the Virginia regiment...
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