| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 strani
...ammunition, discipline, revenue, government or ally, almost totally stript of commerce, and in the weakness of youth, as it were with " a staff and a sling "...of whom even mighty warriors were greatly afraid. * * Infatuated as your enemies have been from the beginning of this contest, do you imagine that they... | |
| 1887 - 716 strani
...discipline, revenue, government, or ally; almost totally stripped of commerce, and in the weakness of youth ; as it were, with a " staff and a sling...gigantic adversary, prepared at all points, boasting bis strength, and of whom mighty warriors were greatly afraid.'1 This was their own estimate of the... | |
| 1900 - 634 strani
...of commerce, and in the weakness of youth, as it were, with 'a sling and staff only,' dared, in tlie name of the Lord of Hosts, to engage a gigantic adversary...all points, boasting of his strength, and of whom mighty warriors were greatly afraid." (See Jour, of Congress?) That old Continental army undertook... | |
| 1888 - 304 strani
...almost totally stripped of commerce, and in the weakness of youth, as it were, with ' a sling and staff only,' dared, in the name of the Lord of Hosts, to...all points, boasting of his strength, and of whom mighty warriors were greatly afraid." (See Jour, of Congress?) That old Continental army undertook... | |
| 1893 - 626 strani
...almost totally stripped of commerce, and in the weakness of youth, as it were, with ' a sling and staff only,' dared, in the name of the Lord of Hosts, to...all points, boasting of his strength, and of whom mighty warriors were greatly afraid." (See Jour, of Congress.) That old Continental army undertook... | |
| United States. Continental Congress - 1909 - 528 strani
...stript of commerce, and at an Ago of Weakness, like the young Shepherd of Israel, and in the weakness of youth, as it were, with a "staff and a sling" only,...adversary, prepared at all points, boasting of his power strength, and of whom even mighty warriors "were greatly afraid." For defraying the expences... | |
| Derek H. Davis - 2000 - 328 strani
...Congress reminded them how "America, without arms, ammunition, discipline, revenue, government or ally, with a 'staff and a sling' only, dared, 'in the name...of whom even mighty warriors 'were greatly afraid.' "70 Congress may have been relying on a higher authority for victory in battle, but it was not itself... | |
| Steven Waldman - 2008 - 306 strani
...reminded Americans how the nation had "without arms, ammumtion, discipline, revenue, govemment or ally, with a staff and a sling' only, dared, 'in the name...the Lord of Hosts/ to engage a gigantic adversary, ''' In his most bitter moments, Washington despaired that he must surely reiy on Cod because he wasn't... | |
| 1900 - 588 strani
...almost totally stripped of commerce, and in the weakness of youth, as it were, with 'a sling and staff only,' dared, in the name of the Lord of Hosts, to...all points, boasting of his strength, and of whom mighty warriors were greatly afraid." (See Jour, of Congress.) That old Continental army undertook... | |
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