 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
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 668 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,...feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve... | |
 | 1894 - 844 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, without clothes or blankets. However, they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them,... | |
 | Ethan Allen - 1894 - 278 strani
...the gentlemen [Congress] that it is much easier to remonstrate in a comfortable room than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blanket. From my soul I pity the miseries which it is not in my power to prevent." — Bancroft. At... | |
 | George Washington - 1909 - 144 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." In 1783 Washington made his famous farewell address to the army, a speech so full of sincere... | |
 | Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Minnesota Commandery - 1890 - 458 strani
..." that it was easier to draw a remonstrance in a comfortable room and by a good fire than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets." In addition to distress for his soldiers he was called to endure another heart-pang. Ambitious, conceited,... | |
 | William Herbert Burk - 1910 - 158 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." While reading these words one is reminded of Lowell's tribute to Washington : Dumb for... | |
 | 1910 - 292 strani
...of Washington for needed help; in one of which he says, "I feel abundantly for them," the soldiers, "and from my soul I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." And he writes again, "Naked and starving as they are, we cannot sufficiently admire the... | |
 | 1911 - 354 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...them; and from my soul I pity those miseries which is neither in my power to relieve, or prevent.1' That is what General Washington said, and thus we... | |
 | George Waldo Broune - 1911 - 362 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 without clothes or blankets, rfowever, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly... | |
 | 1842 - 700 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." In the midst of his difficulties his only«relief was to address himself to congress :... | |
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