... justify myself to your sentiments, I must inform you, that I urged a compliance with Andre's request to be shot, and I do not think it would have had an ill effect; but some people are only sensible to motives of policy, and sometimes, from a narrow... Miscellanies - Стр. 21редактор(ы): - 1872 - Страниц: 207Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Ferdinand S. Bartram - 1888 - Страниц: 234
...mistake it. When Andre's tale comes to be told in the future, and present resentment shall be past, the refusing him the privilege of choosing the manner of his death, will be regretted. * Washington. i It has been proposed to me to suggest to him the idea of an exchange for... | |
| Norman Hapgood - 1901 - Страниц: 492
...sensible to motives of policy, and sometimes, from a narrow disposition, mistake it. " When Andre's tale comes to be told, and present resentment is over,...his death will be branded with too much obstinacy." Anne Seward, the British poetess, had stood out against her friend Dr. Johnson in favor of the colonists,... | |
| Winthrop Sargent - 1902 - Страниц: 632
...disposition, mistake it. When Andre's tale comes to be told, and present resentment is over,—the refusing him the privilege of choosing the manner...his death will be branded with too much obstinacy." On the morning of October 1st, Andre amused himself with some last reminiscences of that art whose... | |
| Octavia Roberts - 1919 - Страниц: 372
...refused, Hamilton publicly announced, in an open letter widely circulated, 116 that " when Andrd's tale comes to be told and present resentment is over,...his death will be branded with too much obstinacy." On the 2d of October Andre was hanged. We have followed Lafayette from scene to scene in America. This... | |
| Octavia Roberts - 1919 - Страниц: 372
...Washington refused, Hamilton publicly announced, in an open letter widely circulated, that " when Andre's tale comes to be told and present resentment is over,...his death will be branded with too much obstinacy." On the 2d of October Andre was hanged. We have followed Lafayette from scene to scene in America. This... | |
| Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton - 1961 - Страниц: 748
...only sensible to motives of policy, and sometimes from a narrow disposition mistake it. When Andre's tale comes to be told, and present resentment is over,...refusing him the privilege of choosing (the) manner of death will be branded with too much obduracy. Arnold; but I knew I should have forfieted his esteem... | |
| Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns - 1996 - Страниц: 354
...only sensible to motives of policy, and sometimes, from a narrow disposition, mistake it. When Andrés tale comes to be told, and present resentment is over:...his death will be branded with too much obstinacy. Hamilton will have made his own moving version of that tale public within the month, but like so many... | |
| Robert A. FERGUSON, Robert A Ferguson - 2009 - Страниц: 374
...only sensible to motives of policy, and sometimes, from a narrow disposition, mistake it. When Andre's tale comes to be told, and present resentment is over;...his death will be branded with too much obstinacy. He then gave his own version of "Andre's tale" to the Pennsylvania Gazette, but like so many inside... | |
| 1854 - Страниц: 434
...only sensible to motives of policy, and sometimes, from a narrow disposition, mistake it. When Andre's tale comes to be told, and present resentment is over,...refusing him the privilege of choosing the manner of bis death, will be branded with too much obstinacy. It was proposed to me to suggest to him the idea... | |
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