 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...is sufficient ; nothing less than depriving him of life or liberty will secure peace to Virginia, as motives of resentment actuate his conduct, to a degree equal to the total destruction of the colony. I fear the destination of the naval armament at Philadelphia is too well known to answer the design.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 580 pages
...is sufficient ; nothing less than depriving him of life or liberty will secure peace to Virginia, as motives of resentment actuate his conduct, to a degree equal to the total destruction of the colony. I fear the destination of the naval armament at Philadelphia is too well known to answer the design,... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 588 pages
...is sufficient ; nothing less than depriving him of life or liberty will secure peace to Virginia, as motives of resentment actuate his conduct, to a degree equal to the total destruction of the colony. I fear the destination of the naval armament at Philadelphia is too well known to answer the design.... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 606 pages
...will become the most formidable enemy America has. His strength will increase as a snowball. * * * Motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the destruction of the colony." General Lee took the occasion to set forth his own system of policy, which... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - History - 1859 - 702 pages
...arms and ammunition, you ries,) vol. 1v. p. 465. NEW CONVENTION AT WILLIAMSBURG. 119 to Virginia ; as motives of resentment actuate his conduct, to a degree equal to the total destruction of the Colony." Under the influence of these various and powerful causes of alienation from the mother country, the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 872 pages
...is sufficient ; nothing less than depriving him of life or liberty will secure peace to Virginia, as motives of resentment actuate his conduct, to a degree equal to the total destruction of the colony." General Lee also wrote to his Virginia namesake on the same subject, and in few words developed the... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 pages
...before spring," wrote Washington of Dunmore, " he will become the most formidable enemy of America. Motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the CHAP. total destruction of Virginia. His strength will in- .— ^ crease as a snowball by rolling,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 pages
...before spring," wrote Washington of Dunmore, " he will become the most formidable enemy of America. Motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the CHAP. total destruction of Virginia. His strength will iu- •—.— crease as a snowball by rolling,... | |
 | Lorenzo Sabine - American loyalists - 1864 - 632 pages
...is sufficient. Nothing less than depriving him of life or liberty will secure peace to Virginia, as motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the total destruction of that colon)-." Lord Dunmore, with his fleet of fugitives, continued on the coasts and rivers of Virginia... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 650 pages
...before spring," wrote Washington, of Dunmore, " he will become the most formidable enemy of America. Motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the total destruction of Virginia. His strength will increase as a snowball by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot... | |
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Motives of resentment actuate his conduct to a degree equal to the destruction of the colony. 
