 | Hu Maxwell, Howard Llewellyn Swisher - Hampshire County (W. Va.) - 1897 - 744 pages
...governor of Virginia: "Your honor may see to what unhappy straits the inhabitants and myself are reduced. I see inevitable destruction in so clear a light that,...speedy assistance sent from below, the poor inhabitants that are now in fort, must unavoidably fall, while the remainder are flying before the barbarous foe.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - United States - 1897
...wrote in April, "may see to what unhappy straits the distressed inhabitants and myself are reduced. I see inevitable destruction in so clear a light that...speedy assistance sent from below, the poor inhabitants that are now in forts must unavoidably fall, while the remainder are flying before the barbarous foe.... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 2032 pages
...would be a willing offering to savage fury, and die by inches to save a people. I see their situation, know their danger, and participate their sufferings,...speedy assistance sent from below, the poor inhabitants that are now in forts must unavoidably fall while the remainder are fleeing before the barbarous foe.... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1905
...to attempt a description of these people's distresses. But what can I do ? I see their situation ; I know their danger, and participate their sufferings,...give them further relief than uncertain promises." — " The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1905
...generous soul, sensible of wrongs, and swelling for redress. But what can I do? I see their situation, know their danger, and participate their sufferings,...give them further relief, than uncertain promises. . . . The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1908 - 489 pages
...would be a willing offering to savage fury, and die by inches to save a people ! I see their situation, know their danger, and participate their sufferings,...speedy assistance sent from below, the poor inhabitants that are now in the forts, must unavoidably fall, while the remainder of the country are flying before... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1910
...wrote in April, "may see to what unhappy straits the distressed inhabitants and myself are reduced. I see inevitable destruction in so clear a light that...speedy assistance sent from below, the poor inhabitants that are now in forts must unavoidably fall, while the remainder are flying before the barbarous foe.... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pennsylvania - 1922
...people's distresses. But what can I do? I see their situation; I know their danger, and participate in their sufferings, without having it in my power to...give them further relief than uncertain promises." "The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow,... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pittsburgh (Pa.) - 1922
...people's distresses. But what can I do? I see their situation; I know their danger, and participate in their sufferings, without having it in my power to...give them further relief than uncertain promises." "The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow,... | |
 | Louis Knott Koontz - Agriculture - 1925 - 186 pages
...would be a willing offering to savage fury, and die by inches to save a people! I see their situation, know their danger, and participate their sufferings,...speedy assistance sent from below, the poor inhabitants that are now in forts, must unavoidably fall, while the remainder of the country are flying before... | |
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I see their situation, know their danger, and participate their sufferings, without having it in my power to give them further relief, than uncertain promises. In short, I see inevitable destruction in so clear a light, that, unless vigorous measures... 
