 Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command.  Life of George Washington - Stran 95avtor: Washington Irving - 1869Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1856 - 680 strani
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavoring to avoid another; but the leas must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and...earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department would have been accompanied by ten times the satisfaction... | |
 | E. Cecil - 1859 - 292 strani
...the prospect. We have been till this time (Nov. 28) enlisting about three thousand five hundred men Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and...earth should have induced me to accept this command." On the 1st of December, the Connecticut troops left the camp, in spite of an agreement to stay till... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 512 strani
...surprised at any disaster that may happen. * * * Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and ana likely to experience, no consideration upon earth...character, and thought himself " happy in an opportunity to tferve under so good a general." He grieved at Washington's annoyances, but attributed them in part... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 514 strani
...and I pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again. What will be the end of these manoeuvres is beyond my scan. I tremble at the prospect. We have...opportunity to serve under so good a general." He grieved at VOL. ii. — 4* Washington's annoyances, but attributed them in part to his being somewhat of a stranger... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 578 strani
...time, was the language of Washington! To his Adjutant-General he writes on the 28th of November—" Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and...earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment, or any subordinate department, would have been accompanied with ten times the satisfaction,... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1873 - 524 strani
...before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again. . . . I tremble at the prospect. . . . Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and...earth should have induced me to accept this command." Such were the circumstances, and such the feelings, in which the commander-in-chief found himself conducting... | |
 | William Menzies - 1875 - 526 strani
...Virtue and Patriotism. " I tremble at the prospect." " Could I have foreseen what 1 have and am like to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command." The Siege of Boston continued. Difficulties with the Provincial Troops. Knox and the Artillery. Capitulation... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 542 strani
...before, and pray God's mercy that 1 may never be witness to again. . . . I tremble at the prospect. . . . Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and...earth should have induced me to accept this command." Such were the circumstances, and such the feelings, in which the commander-in-chief found himself conducting... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 538 strani
...before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again. . . . I tremble at the prospect. . . . Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and...earth should have induced me to accept this command." Such were the circumstances, and such the feelings, in which the commander-in-chief found himself conducting... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 618 strani
...will not be prevailed upon to stay longer than their term, saving those who have enlisted for the nest campaign, and are mostly on furlough; and such a mercenary...under so good a general." He grieved at Washington's annbyances, but attributed them in part to his being somewhat of a stranger in New England. "He has... | |
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