 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 Edmund Burke - Page 288by Edmund Burke - 1839Full 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 - Great Britain - 1813 - 630 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 your...humanity may be touched by their sufferings, I should tiiiuk it inexpedient to afford them any alleviation, while they persist in a breach of their contract... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1813 - 544 pages
...following words :— *' I- am sorry it is not in my power to comply J' ;,wkh your proposal of easmg the prisoners for a •" few days of their fetters....humanity '" may be touched by their sufferings, I should & think it inexpedient to afford them any alle4' viation while they persist in a breach of their -'... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1819 - 556 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...I should " think it inexpedient to afford them any alle" viation while they persist in a breach of their " contract with me ; and indeed no indulgence... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 648 pages
...the said officer did receive a dirrct refusal, dated 22d May 1782, in the following words : — " 1 am sorry it is not in my power to comply with your...while they persist in a breach of their contract with ine ; and indeed no indulgence can be shown them without the authority of the nabob, who, instead of... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - Prisons - 1838 - 344 pages
...Dacres and B (both midshipmen), said, " I shall provide for you, gentlemen ; but as for the others, I am sorry it is not in my power to comply with their request." K and I begged of him to consider how wretched would be our state, if we were again... | |
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