I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. Janice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution - Stran 58avtor: Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 536 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 strani
...distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul, pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to prevent." All these efforts... | |
| David Ramsay - 1807 - 486 strani
...was much easier to draw up remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets." To the other vexations which crowded upon general Washington at the close of the campaign of 1777,... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 strani
...distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to prevent." All these efforts... | |
| 1832 - 564 strani
...distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire-side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow,...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to prevent." The representations... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 590 strani
...less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow,...miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.* * Alluding to the Memorial, or Remonstrance, of the legislature of Pennsylvania, respecting... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 600 strani
...less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow,...miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.* * Alluding to the Memorial, or Remonstrance, of the legislature of Pennsylvania, respecting... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 594 strani
...less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow,...miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.* * Alluding to the Memorial, or Remonstrance, of the legislature of Pennsylvania, respecting... | |
| James Herring - 1834 - 468 strani
...and less distressing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or prevent." The exertions which... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 456 strani
...remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire-side, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleop under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little fesling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity... | |
| John Marshall - 1836 - 534 strani
...distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire-side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow,...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to prevent." The representations... | |
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