 | John Frost - North America - 1838 - 404 pages
...colonies to the mother country. ' I am not worth purchasing,' replied this incorruptible patriot, ' but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me.' All the clandestine overtures of the governor were rejected with contempt, and congress being... | |
 | Jesse Olney - United States - 1839 - 304 pages
...General Reed, if he would bring about a reconciliation. He replied in the true spirit of freedom, " I am not worth purchasing, but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me." 4. The conduct of the British in stirring up the cruel savages to ravage the American frontiers,... | |
 | William Grimshaw - United States - 1840 - 342 pages
...Joseph Reed, an influential member of congress, this patriot replied: " I am not worth purchasing; yet, such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me." It has already been mentioned, that the hostile armies of Washington and Howe had withdrawn... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Atlantic States - 1841 - 538 pages
...his country's cause by the offer of riches and honours made him by the agents of Britain, replied, " I am not worth purchasing ; but, such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me." The last act of this great political drama was the Declaration of American Independence on... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...£10,000 sterling, with the best office in the colonies, to promote their plans. He promptly replied, " I am not worth purchasing ; but such as I am, the...king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it." On the 6th February, 1778, France openly espoused the American cause, by a treaty with the commissioners,... | |
 | J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1844 - 742 pages
...thousand pounds sterling, and any office in the colonies in his majesty's gift. To which Reed replied, "I am not worth purchasing, but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it" Congress, on the ninth of July, ordered all letters, received by members of Congress, from any of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...service in recalling the doubting and irresolute to a sense of duty. The noble answer ol Reed — " I am not worth purchasing ; but, such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me" — was repeated from mouth to mouth ; and from the hour hi uttered it, the Whigs had won,... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1844 - 438 pages
...colonies to the mother country. ' I am not worth purchasing,' replied this incorruptible patriot; • but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me.' All the clandestine overtures of the governor were rejected with contempt, and congress being... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1844 - 626 pages
...and irresolute to a senne of duty. The noble answer of REED, 'lam not worth purchasing*, hut, euch as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me,' was repeated from mouth to mouth ; and from the hour he uttered it, the Whigs had won, and... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...colonies, in his majesty's gift. Col. Reed— indignantly replied, — "I am not worth purchasing; but euch as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me." Laconics. 1. Any violation of lam—I* я breach of morality. 2. Music, in all ite variety,... | |
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I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it. 
