 | Sir Samuel Romilly - Lawyers - 1840 - 492 pages
...of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet" " But," say the Congress, " the practice and usage of war were against his request, and made the indulgence... | |
 | Samuel Romilly - Great Britain - 1840 - 496 pages
...of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet." " But," say the Congress, " the practice and usage of war were against his request, and made the indulgence... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1841 - 834 pages
...of policy, and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet.'* To this touching appeal Washington returned an evasive answer ; but he held, with a most unseasonable... | |
 | Samuel Romilly - Biography - 1842 - 496 pages
...of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet." " But," say the Congress, " the practice and usage of war were against his request, and made the indulgence... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1842 - 294 pages
...of policy, and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. I have the honour to be, your Excellency, John Andre, Adjutant of British forces in America." All this... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1835 - 372 pages
...of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. " I have the honor to be your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, "JOHN ANDRE." The... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - Crime - 1844 - 410 pages
...of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet." " But," say the Congress, " the practice and usage of war .were against his request, and made the indulgence... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...victim of policy and resentment, I shall experience 454 the operations of those feelings in your breast by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet.' " This letter of Andre roused the sympathies of Washington, and had he only been concerned, the prisoner... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 900 pages
...of policy, and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. Even this request could not be complied with, and next day Major Andre was hanged as a spy. Andre was... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience ¡he operation of these feelings in your breast by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet. " I have the honor to be, your excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, "JOHN ANDRÍC."... | |
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Let me hope, Sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, if aught in my misfortunes marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed... 
