 You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it...  Life of George Washington - Stran 497avtor: Washington Irving - 1869Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 582 strani
...idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However,...though it may remain for some time under a cloud." The motives of General Lee, it is not hard to divine. No suspicion can rest upon him ni' any traitorous... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1835 - 568 strani
...idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However,...though it may remain for some time under a cloud." The motives of General Lee, it is not hard to divine. No suspicion can rest upon him of any traitorous... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 590 strani
...idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However,...though it may remain for some time under a cloud. TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. Camp, above Trenton Falls, 20 December, 1776. SIR, I have waited with... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 588 strani
...idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However,...though it may remain for some time under a cloud. My love and sincere regards attend my sister and the family, with compliments to all inquiring friends.... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - 1847 - 574 strani
...party of light-horse that seized him, and carried him, off, with every mark of triumph and indignity. persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain...though it may remain for some time under a cloud. ' My love and sincere regards attend my sister and the family, with compliments to all inquiring friends.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1848 - 394 strani
...No man ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. But under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause,...though it may remain for some time under a cloud." It was at this desperate crisis, when hope seemed dead, that in the American camp the suggestion was... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 strani
...idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full conviction of the justice of our cause, I can not entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1855 - 714 strani
...idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full conviction of the justice of our cause, 1 can not entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though... | |
 | 1856 - 654 strani
...men, nor yet SS plexity of my situation ; no man I believe ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However,...though it may remain for some time under a cloud." — t Spa-la, p. 229. Two days later, (December 20, 1776,) at the lame place, Washington applied to... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 596 strani
...Philadelphia. He writes to his brother : — " No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However,...though it may remain for some time under a cloud." One thing strikes one as remarkable, in studying this part of Washington's career, that there was any... | |
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