 | 1805 - 608 sivua
...was the hope of being instrumental in a reconciliation; and believe, that when you find that to be impossible, on any terms given you to propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honourable private station. " With the greatest and most sincere respect, I have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 552 sivua
...great motive in coming hither was the hope of being instrumental in a reconciliation ; and I believe, when you find that impossible on any terms given you...propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honorable private station. With the greatest and most sincere respect, I have... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1838 - 474 sivua
...was the hope of being instrumental in a reconciliation ; and believe that, when you find that to be impossible, on any terms given you to propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honourable private station." From this reply, and the tone taken at the conference... | |
 | sir John Barrow (bart.) - 1838 - 492 sivua
...was the hope of being instrumental in a reconciliation ; and believe that, when you find that to be impossible, on any terms given you to propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honourable private station." From this reply, and the tone taken at the conference... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 688 sivua
..." xxix _ !_ 1776. Battle of Brooklyn, of Ai Aug. 2Cth of Aug. in a reconciliation ; and I believe, when " you find that impossible on any terms given...propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, " and return to a more honourable private station." This artful compound of presumption, insolence,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 sivua
...coming hither was the hope of being instrumental in a reconciliation ; and I believe, when you find thai impossible, on any terms given you to propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honorable private station." — Works, Vol. v. pp. 101, 102. He returned to America... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 606 sivua
...I know your great motive in coming hither, was the hope of being instrumental in a reconciliation ; and I believe that when you find that impossible on any terms given to you. to propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honorable private... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 872 sivua
...hither was the hope of being instrumental in a reconciliation ; and, I believe, when you find tliat impossible on any terms given you to propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honorable private station." — Sparks's Life and Writings of Franklin, v., 99.... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 728 sivua
...great motive in coming hither was the hope of being instrumental in a reconeiliation : and I believe, when you find that impossible on any terms given you...propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honorable private station." This letter was delivered to Lord Howe ten days after... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1866 - 518 sivua
...and the profit of no trade can ever be equal' to the expense of compelling it by fleets and armies. CHAP. and I believe that when you find that impossible...sombre; tears glistened in his eyes; he looked within himself, and was conscious of aiming at a reconciliation on terms of honor and advantage to both parties.... | |
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I know your great motive in coming hither was the hope of being instrumental in a reconciliation ; and I believe, when you find that impossible on any terms given you to propose, you will relinquish so odious a command, and return to a more honorable... 
