| William Bradford Reed - United States - 1847 - 460 pages
...for the King's transports, and submit to all the hardships that can be conceived. One or two of them have committed what it would have been happy for mankind...more of them had done, long ago: the act of suicide. By all accounts a more miserable set of beings does not exist than these; taught to believe that the... | |
| Jared Sparks - Manuscripts - 1852 - 60 pages
...having " omitted all the vehement language, which Washington at this period applies to the English." 15 You go on, under the same head, to cite another passage....mankind if more of them had done long ago, the act of suicide.'5 A long paragraph including these lines was left out, although your mode of citing them leaves... | |
| George Washington - 1852 - 180 pages
...the Kinij's transports, and submit to all the hardships that can be conceived. One or twr> of them have committed what it would have been happy for mankind...more of them had done, long ago ; the act of suicide. By all accounts a more miserable set of beings does not exist than these; taught to believe that tlie... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...April, 1776, Washington writes of the loyalist Americans left behind at Boston : " One or two " of them have committed what it would have been happy " for...them had done long ago — the " act of suicide!" For this harshness I can offer no excuse. I am not astonished at your desire to conceal it. But still... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...April, 1776, Washington writes of the loyalist Americans left behind at Boston : " One or two " of them have committed what it would have been happy " for...them had done long ago — the " act of suicide!" For this harshness I can offer no excuse. I am not astonished at your desire to conceal it. But still... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 pages
...April, 1776, Washington writes of the loyalist Americans left behind at Boston : " One or two " of them have committed what it would have been happy " for...them had done long ago — the " act of suicide!" For this harshness I can offer no excuse. I am not astonished at your desire to conceal it. But still... | |
| George Washington - Presidents - 1889 - 536 pages
...for the king's transports, and submit to all the hardships that can be conceived. One or two of them have committed what it would have been happy for mankind...more of them had done, long ago ; the act of suicide. By all accounts a more miserable set of beings does not exist than these ; taught to believe that the... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1889 - 550 pages
...for the king's transports, and submit to all the hardships that can be conceived. One or two of them have committed what it would have been happy for mankind...more of them had done, long ago ; the act of suicide. By all accounts a more miserable set of beings does not exist than these ; taught to believe that the... | |
| George Washington - Presidents - 1908 - 500 pages
...for the king's transports, and submit to all the hardships that can be conceived. One or two of them have committed what it would have been happy for mankind...more of them had done, long ago; the act of suicide. By all accounts a more miserable set of beings does not exist than these; taught to believe that the... | |
| Frederic Jesup Stimson - United States - 1917 - 656 pages
...for the king's transports, and submit to all the hardships that can be conceived. One or two of them have committed what it would have been happy for mankind...more of them had done long ago, the act of suicide. By all accounts, a more miserable Bet of beings does not exist than these; taught to believe that the... | |
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