 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1834 - 340 pages
...on the next question in Parliament, to read Lord Bellamont's triumphant speech. Only, joking apart, tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do it. But now only look at every other person of our own age and station in life, and observe if they... | |
 | Frances Milton Trollope - 1844 - 1048 pages
...agitated features, positively brought tears into his eyes, and he said, " Forgive me, Celestina! Only tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do it instantly." " That is all I ask !" was her reply. « If you would only have the humanity to do every... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope ; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to...will now answer. Tell me what you wish me to do and 1 will do all in my power to accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority are. 1 ask... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1888 - 620 pages
...honour to accept my alliance ; but I won't go so far as to promise that I shall be an efficient one. Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do it to the best of my small abilities." " I wish you to find out what has tempted Gertrude to refuse... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe. No middle course will now answer. Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 280 pages
...open communications with Pope ; 2d, to leave Pope to get 176 REPORT OF GENERAL GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN. out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to...what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, hut will obey whatever orders you give. I only ask a prompt decision that I may at once give the necessary... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to...do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. To this the President had thus replied: WASHINGTON, August 29, 1862—4.10 p. M. Yours of to-day just... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 500 pages
...1st. To concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope. 2d. To leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to...me what you wish me to do and I will do all in my po\v,er to accomplish it. I wish to know wh.it my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but... | |
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I am clear that one of two courses should be adopted: first, to concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe. 
