I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds a year would not induce me to undergo what I do; and after all, perhaps^ to lose my character, as it is impossible,... The American Revolution - Página 12por George Otto Trevelyan - 1904Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 588 páginas
...Assembly. I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds...the difficulties their own errors have occasioned. I am glad to find by your last letter, that your family are tolerably well recovered from the indisposition... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1835 - 568 páginas
...men. In " I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds...the difficulties their own errors have occasioned. ten days from this date, there will not be above two thousand men, if that number, of the fixed established... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1835 - 582 páginas
...Assembly. " I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of tiiings, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds...is impossible, under such a variety of distressing cireumstances, to conduct matters agreeably to public expectation, or- even to the expectation of those... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 590 páginas
...Assembly. I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds...the difficulties their own errors have occasioned. I am glad to find by your last letter, that your family are tolerably well recovered from the indisposition... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 588 páginas
...Assembly. I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds...the difficulties their own errors have occasioned. I am glad to find by your last letter, that your family are tolerably well recovered from the indisposition... | |
| Thaddeus Allen - 1847 - 574 páginas
...situation. * * * ' I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds a year would not induce me to undergo what I do.' Gen. Washington to the President of Congress, Dec. 20. ' 1 have labored, ever since I have been in... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 páginas
...effected I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things ; and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds...circumstances, to conduct matters agreeably to public expectations." CHAPTEK XLI. THE ENEMY CROSS THE HUDSON.— RETREAT OP THE GARRISON FROM FORT LEB. —... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 564 páginas
...Commanderin-chief, in a private letter, "with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds...perhaps, to lose my character, as it is impossible, tinder such a variety of distressing circumstances, to conduct matters agreeably to public expectation,... | |
| 1855 - 586 páginas
...: — " I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds...the difficulties their own -errors have occasioned." And besides that which came upon him daily, in the regular line of duty, the yet more difficult work... | |
| Washington Irving - 1855 - 606 páginas
...effected. * * * I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things ; and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds...conduct matters agreeably to public expectation." CHAPTER XLI. THE ENEMY CROSS THE HUDSON — EETEEAT OF THE GARRISON FROM FOET LEE — THE CROSSING... | |
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