 | John Henry Sherburne - 1851 - 434 pages
...exchange of prisoners, will be an act of humanity which will afford you golden feelings on a death-bed. " I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed ; but,...ambitious of her esteem and friendship, and would do anything, consistent with my duty, to merit it. " The honor of a line from your hand, in answer to... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - 1851 - 422 pages
...exchange of prisoners, will be an act of humanity which will afford you golden feelings on a death-bed. u I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed ; but,...Countess of Selkirk regard me as an enemy. I am ambitious gf her esteem and friendship, and would do anything, consistent with my duty, to merit it. " I wish... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1855 - 560 pages
...exchange of prisoners will be an act of humanity which will afford you golden feelings on a death-bed. " I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed ; but...do any thing, consistent with my duty, to merit it. lay me under a singular obligation ; and if I can render you any acceptable service in France or elsewhere,... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 pages
...persuaded you will attempt it — and who can resist the power of such an advocate ?) your endeavors to effect a general exchange of prisoners will be...I wage no war with the fair ! I acknowledge their power, and bend before it with profound submission ! Let not, therefore, the amiable countess of Selkirk... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 pages
...continue, I wage no war with the fair ! I acknowledge their power. and bend before it with profound submission '. Let not, therefore, the amiable countess of Selkirk regard me as an enemy ; I am ambitjous of her esteem and friendship, and would do anything consistent with my duty to merit it.... | |
 | 1879 - 882 pages
...exchange of prisoners will be an act of humanity, which will afford you golden feelings on a deathbed. I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed; but...wage no war with the Fair — I acknowledge their power, and .bend before it with profound submission ! let not therefore the amiable countess of Selkirk... | |
 | 1879 - 1020 pages
...exchange of prisonera will be an act of humanity, which will afford you golden feelings on a deathbed. I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed; but should it continue — l wage no war with the Fair — I acknowledge their power, and bend before it with profound submission... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 446 pages
...exchange of prisoners will be an act of humanity which will afford you golden feelings on a death-bed. " I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed ; but...ambitious of her esteem and friendship, and would do anything, consistent with my duty, to merit it. " The honour of a line from your hand in answer to... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...exchange of prisoners will be an act of humanity which will afford you golden feelings on a deathbed. I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed; but...ambitious of her esteem and friendship, and would do anything, consistent with my duty, to merit it The honor of a line from your hand in answer to this,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 pages
...exchange of prisoners will be an act of humanity which will afford you golden feelings on a deathbed. I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed ; but...ambitious of her esteem and friendship, and would do anything, consistent with my duty, to merit it The honor of a line from your hand in answer to this,... | |
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I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed; but should it continue, I wage no war with the fair. I acknowledge their force, and bend before it with submission. 
