 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 604 Seiten
...of government. Change the milk-and-water style of your last memorial. Assume a bolder tone, decent, but lively, spirited, and determined ; and suspect...suing, soft, unsuccessful epithet of memorial. Let it represent in language, that will neither dishonor you by its rudeness, nor betray you by its fears,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1853 - 570 Seiten
...of government. Change the milk-and-water style of your last memorial. Assume a bolder tone ; decent, but lively, spirited, and determined; and suspect...suing, soft, unsuccessful epithet of memorial.) Let it represent, in language that will neither dishonor you by its rudeness nor betray you by its fears,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1879 - 716 Seiten
...of government. Change the milk-and-water style of your last memorial; assume a bolder tone, decent, but lively, spirited, and determined ; and suspect...the suing, soft, unsuccessful epithet of memorial" He advised them to talk boldly to Congress, and to warn that body that the slightest mark of indignity... | |
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...hereafter will be as empty as your entreaties now. Appeal from the justice to the fears of government, and suspect the man who would advise to more moderation and longer forbearance. 9 The last sentence may have been written with George Washington specifically in mind. In any case,... | |
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Assume a bolder tone, decent but lively, spirited and determined, and suspect the man who would advise to more moderation and longer forbearance. Let two or three men who can feel as well as write be appointed to draw up your last remonstrance, for I... 
