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" ... under greater disadvantages than the King's (I think it idle to keep up the distinction of ministerial) troops have done, being obliged in a manner, to man their own vessels; seamen not being to be had for the King's transports, and submit to all... "
Letter to Lord Mahon: Being an Answer to His Letter Addressed to the Editor ... - Page 16
by Jared Sparks - 1852 - 48 pages
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Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed: Military Secretary of ..., Volume 1

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...
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Letter to Lord Mahon: Being an Answer to His Letter Addressed to the Editor ...

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...
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Reprint of the Original Letters from Washington to Joseph Reed, During the ...

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...
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History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Volume 6

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...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ...

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...
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1774-1780.-

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...
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The Writings of George Washington, Volume 4

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...
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The Writings of George Washington: 1776

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...
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Letters and Addresses

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...
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My Story: Being the Memoirs of Benedict Arnold: Late Major-General in 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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