 I am sorry it is not in my power to comply with your proposal of easing the prisoners for a few days of their fetters. Much as my humanity may be touched by their sufferings, I should think it inexpedient to afford them any alleviation while they persist...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 76by Edmund Burke - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 640 pages
...possible, as the longer the affair is suspended the more disagreeable consequences will follow from it. I am sorry it is not in my power to comply with your excellency's request respectingcolonel Luke Marlmry, he being a prisoner of war in the not them department.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1827 - 492 pages
...know your plea" sure concerning it. (signed) " Leonard Jaques." On the 22d May 1782, Captain Jaques's humane proposal is thus replied to by Mr. Middleton...power to " comply with your proposal of easing the pri" soners for a few days of their fetters. Much " as my humanity may be touched by their sufVOL.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1815 - 546 pages
...the said officer did receive a direct refusal, dated 2!2d May 1782, in the following words : — " I am sorry it is not in my power to comply " with...may be touched by their sufferings, I should " think k inexpedient to afford them any alle11 viation while they persist in a breach of their " contract... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...letter the said officer did receive a direct refusal, dated 22d May 1782, in the following words : — " e transactions, I resign the common and legal security of those, who commit c prison" ers for a few days of their fetters. Much as my " humanity may be touched by their sufferings,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...letter the said officer did receive a direct "fusal, dated 22d May 1782, in the following words : — " I am sorry it is not in my power to "comply with your proposal of easing the prison'' "» for a few days of their fetters. Much as my " humanity may be touched by their sufferings,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 558 pages
...said officer did teceive a direct refusal, dated 22d May, 1782, in the following words :— I am anrry it is not in my power to comply with your proposal of easing tho prisoners for a few days of their fetters. Much as my humanity msy he touched hy their sufferings,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 588 pages
...exchange I have prescribed to myself, which is that of liberating those first, who were first taken. I am sorry it is not in my power to comply with your request for arms. Notwithstanding the many arrivals, there is scarcely a sufficiency to supply the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 562 pages
...letter the said officer did icceive a direct refusal, dated 22d May, 1782, in the following words : — I am sorry it is not in my power to comply with your...their contract with me ; and indeed no indulgence can be shown them without the authority of the nabob, who, instead of consenting to moderate the rigours... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 660 pages
...letter the said officer did receive a direct refusal, dated 22d May 1782, in the following words : — " I am sorry it is not in my power to " comply with...their " contract with me ; and indeed no indulgence " can be shewn them without the authority of the " nabob, who, instead of consenting to moderate "... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 590 pages
...exchange I have prescribed to myself, which is that of liberating those first, who were first taken. I am sorry it is not in my power to comply with your request for arms. Notwithstanding the many arrivals, there is scarcely a sufficiency to supply the... | |
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