 | Paul K. Longmore - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 356 pages
...Lordship's Eye, they may appear in other respects." "Unhappy it is though to reflect," lamented Washington, "that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed in a Brother's...alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice?"46 CHAPTER FOURTEEN "Partiallity . . . assisted by a political motive" George Washington's... | |
 | Roger W. Wilkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 188 pages
...his charge and developments in the field, he wrote, "Unhappy it is . . . to reflect that a brothers sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and...alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?" Washington surely intended no more irony here than Mason had when he wrote in the Fairfax Resolves... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 204 pages
...and Lexington, 19 April 1775. He had prepared his mind for the inevitable consequences. Unhappy it is to reflect, that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed...alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice?26 WAGING WAR 1775-1781 In May of 1775, at the Second Continental Congress, Washington served... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...official expenses ( W 1 67). He already had linked sacrifice and virtue in justifying America's actions: "the once happy and peaceful plains of America are...alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice?" (W 164). General Washington's military tactics and grand strategy of matching geopolitical alliances... | |
 | David Hackett Fischer - History - 2006 - 576 pages
...sent a letter of explanation to George William Fairfax. "Unhappy it is though to reflect," he wrote, "that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed in a Brother's...alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?"30 These were his alternatives in 1775: liberty or slavery, virtue or corruption, honor or... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 409 pages
...sheathed px § brother's breast; and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are to be either drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in Ms choice?" OHAPTBE XXXVIII. Enlisting of Troops la the East — Camp at Boston — General Artemas... | |
 | Dave Richard Palmer - History - 2006 - 434 pages
...in City Tavern two nights in a row. "Unhappy ... it is to reflect," he wrote in a letter that month, "that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's...alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?" That same fateful May 25, 1775, a thirty-two-gun frigate, Cerberus, fresh from London, dropped anchor... | |
 | Frederick Hiram Clark - 1888 - 470 pages
...sheathed in a brother's breast, and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are to be either drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice ? " A committee in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, asserted that the English Parliament, by declaring... | |
 | Unesco - Broadcasting - 1888 - 462 pages
...sheathed in a brother's breast, and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are to be either drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice ? " A committee in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, asserted that the English Parliament, by declaring... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1858 - 610 pages
...sheathed in a brother's breast ; and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are to be either drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative ! But can a virtuous man hesitate in Jiis choice ? w The Massachusetts Congress was in session at the time, and immediately took measures... | |
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Unhappy it is, though, to reflect, that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast, and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative ! But can a virtuous... 
