| George Washington - United States - 1834 - 574 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides, especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common sense, f • Colonel Washington had been despatched to Williamsburg, to obtain four thousand pounds in money... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides, especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common sense, f * Colonel Washington had been despatched to Williamsburg, to obtain four thousand pounds in money... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides, especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common sense, f * Colonel Washington had been despatched to Williamsburg, to obtain four thousand pounds in money... | |
| Israel Acrelius, New Sweden. Upland court, William Penn - Bibliography - 1855 - 462 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides — especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common sense." While all will agree with Mr. Sparks that the General had but too good grounds for complaint, it is... | |
| Bibliography - 1855 - 458 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides — especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common sense." While all will agree with Mr. Sparks that the General had but too good grounds for complaint, it is... | |
| Winthrop Sargent - Braddock's Campaign, 1755 - 1855 - 464 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides — especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common sense." While all will agree with Mr. Sparks that the General had but too good grounds for complaint, it is... | |
| Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 566 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides, especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or of giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common nense." The same pertinacity was maintained with respect to the Indians. George Croghan informed Washington... | |
| George Washington - Presidents - 1871 - 240 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides, especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common sense. To WILLIAM FAIRFAX, June 7, 1755. 2 Sparks, 77. 6. HE GIVES GENERAL BRADDOCK GOOD ADVICE. ("N the letter... | |
| Charles McKnight - Duquesne, Fort - 1873 - 536 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides — especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common sense." When Washington took sick on the route, nothing could exceed the General's attention to and solicitude... | |
| Charles McKnight - Fort Duquesne (Pa.) - 1874 - 532 pages
...maintained with warmth on both sides — especially on his, as he is incapable of arguing without it, or giving up any point he asserts, be it ever so incompatible with reason or common sense." When Washington was ill on the route, nothing could exceed the General's attention to and solicitude... | |
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