 | Benson John Lossing - 1901 - 530 Seiten
...given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischief that can l>ofall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you, then, as you have regard for your country, for yourself, or posterity, or respect... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1901 - 488 Seiten
...title of king, which he promised the army would confirm. In his reply to Nicola, Washington wrote : " If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable." Nicolay, John G., born in 1832, came to America from Bavaria in 1838. He was secretary to President... | |
 | Edgar Mayhew Bacon - 1902 - 656 Seiten
...could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischief that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you, then, as you have regard for your country, for yourself, or posterity, or respect... | |
 | 1905 - 644 Seiten
...could have given encouragement to an address which seems to me big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...add, that no man possesses a more sincere wish to see justice done to the army than I do; and as far as my power and influence in a constitutional way extend,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 594 Seiten
...have given encouragement to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...whom your schemes are more disagreeable. At the same ti in justice to my own feelings, I must add, that no man possesses a more sincere wish to see ample... | |
 | John Henry Haaren - 1905 - 190 Seiten
...could have given encouragement to an address which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...have found a person to whom your schemes are more 21 disagreeable. At the same time, in justice to my own feelings, I must add that no man possesses... | |
 | Macgrane Coxe - 1906 - 78 Seiten
...encouragement to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my 37 country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of...have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable."1 Washington determined to quell this movement without seeming officially to oppose it.... | |
 | Sons of the American Revolution. California Society - 1909 - 202 Seiten
...have given encouragement to an address which, to me, seems big with the greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. . . . Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity,... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1909 - 648 Seiten
...at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement" to such an address and "If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself,...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable." May 22, 1781 bear — our property is expended — our. private resources 1783 at an end, and our friends... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1909 - 632 Seiten
...at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement" to such an address and "If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself,...person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. In December, Washington's ill-clad troops were in winter quarters on the wooded hills in the rear of... | |
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I am much at a loss to conceive what part of my conduct could have given encouragement to an address, which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs, that cap befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found... 
