 Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity,...  The Life of George Washington - עמוד 1971829 - 268 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 דפים
...in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour ? If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs; the ridicule, and... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1859 - 530 דפים
...called simply the •• Temple." tempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can — go, and carry with you the jests of Tories and the scorn of Whigs, the ridicule,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1859 - 776 דפים
...Newburg, on the 15th March, 1783 : "If those predictions of this anonymous letter writer are verified, then shall I have learned what ingratitude is — then shall I have realized a talo which will embitter every moment'of my future life ; but," proceeds the General, "I am under no... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1860 - 558 דפים
...called simply the " Temple." tempt ? Can you consent to wade through Ihft vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can — go, and carry with you the jests of Tories and the scorn of Whigs, the ridicule,... | |
 | HON. J. Y. HEADLEY - 1860 - 502 דפים
...was called simply the " Temple." tempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can — -go, and carry with you the jests of Tories and the scorn of Whigs, the ridicule,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 דפים
...vain." poverty, wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can, go, and carry the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs; the ridicule, and, what... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 622 דפים
...life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ; ' then shall I have learned what ingratitnde is, then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter every moment of my future life. But I am under no such apprehensions. A country, rescued by their arms from impending ruin, will never... | |
 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - 1869 - 358 דפים
...in poverty, wretchedness and contempt ? Can youjconsent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories, and the scorn of Whigs ; the ridicule... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1875 - 522 דפים
...seditious circular is§ned the 10th of March ? consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can — go ! and carry with you the jest of Tories and the scorn of Whigs ;— the ridicule,... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1876 - 588 דפים
...inflaming their passions, the officers of the revolution are to be the only sufferers by this revolution, then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then...which will embitter every moment of my future life." The demands of the American army were complied with, and peace was established in America as well as... | |
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