 | Jeremy Belknap - New Hampshire - 1812 - 386 pages
...on that occafion paid him the following compliment. ' It would have been ' an infinite fatisfa<5lion to me, and done great * honor to the expedition, if...limbs would * have permitted you to take the chief com* mand.' Wentworth was charmed with the idea, and forgetting his gout, made an offer of his perfonal... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - Indians of North America - 1831 - 566 pages
...Massachusetts, and in the letter which he wrote on that occasion paid him the following compliment. ' It would have ' been an infinite satisfaction to me,...would have permitted you to take the * chief command.' Wentworth was charmed with the idea, and forgetting his gout, made an offer of his personal service... | |
 | New Hampshire (Colony) Probate Court - 1871 - 982 pages
...be given to 'em over & above what is mention'd in the Proclamation, at the time of their Inlistment. It would have been an infinite satisfaction to me, and done great honour to the Expedition, if your Limbs would have permitted you to have taken upon you the chief command.... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1881 - 542 pages
...grass, and mark their hissing." In his life of Pepperell, Parsons says:—"After his (Pepperell's) nomination, Governor Shirley, probably for the purpose...and Shirley had the mortification not only to make an apology, but to tell him that any change in the command would hazard the expedition." t Col. Noble... | |
 | William Goold - Maine - 1881 - 184 pages
...(Pepperell's) nomination, Governor Shirley, probably for the purpose of paying Governor Weutworth, of New Hampshire, an empty compliment, and perhaps...and Shirley had the mortification not only to make an apology, but to tell him that any change in the command would hazard the expedition." conclude that... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Maine - 1881 - 538 pages
...of paying Governor Wentworth, of New Hampshire, an empty compliment, and perhaps enlisting him u,ore heartily in the cause, addressed him a letter in which...and Shirley had the mortification not only to make an apology, but to tell him that any change in the command would hazard the expedition." t Col. Noble... | |
 | John Albee - Historic buildings - 1884 - 250 pages
...Governor Shirley with the confidential message that it would have been " an infinite satisfaction to me if your limbs would have permitted you to take the chief command. " For Governor Wentworth had one aristocratic malady among the other proud and prosperous tokens of... | |
 | John Albee - Historic buildings - 1885 - 258 pages
...Governor Shirley with the confidential message that it would have been "an infinite satisfaction to me if your limbs would have permitted you to take the chief command." For Governor Wentworth had one aristocratic malady among the other proud and prosperous tokens of his... | |
 | George Arthur Wood - History - 1920 - 452 pages
...blank beating orders 1 signed by Shirley for raising them. At the same time he informed Wentworth: " It would have been an infinite satisfaction to me, and done great honour to the expedition, if your limbs would have permitted you to have taken upon you the chief command."... | |
 | George Arthur Wood - Massachusetts - 1920 - 456 pages
...blank beating orders' signed by Shirley for raising them. At the same time he informed Wentworth: " It would have been an infinite satisfaction to me, and done great honour to the expedition, if your limbs would have permitted you to have taken upon you the chief command."... | |
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In his life of Pepperell, Parsons says:—"After his (Pepperell's) nomination, Governor Shirley, probably for the purpose of paying Governor Wentworth, of New Hampshire, an empty compliment, and perhaps enlisting him more heartily in the cause, addressed... 