Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee —— And His Correspondence With the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe, Illustrative for Their Characters, and of the Events of the American Revolution

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ISBN: 9781331219583 出版年：2016 页码：241 Richard Henry Lee Forgotten Books

I did not mean by the words, to get rid of importunity, to cast the smallest reflection; indeed the hurry with which I am obliged to write the few private letters I attempt, will not allow me to consider the force and tendency of my words; nor should I have been surprised, if the fact had really been so, if I am to judge of their, I mean foreigners' applications to Congress, by those to myself for it is not one, nor twen ty explanations, that will satisfy the cravings of these peo» ple's demands.