Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this Revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to... Life of Washington, v.3-4 - Page 364by Washington Irving - 1881Full view - About this book
| George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 240 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remains of life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour ! — if you can — go — and carry with you the jest...world. Go, starve, and be forgotten ! but if your spirit should revolt at this ; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit sufficient to oppose... | |
| George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 232 pages
...miserable remains of life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour !—if you can—go—and carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of...world. Go, starve, and be forgotten ! but if your spirit should revolt at this ; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit sufficient to oppose... | |
| 1802 - 440 pages
...contempt — if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor," then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter... | |
| John Marshall - Generals - 1805 - 666 pages
...owe the miser- 1783. able remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour? If you can... go.. .and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs...the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world. Go, starve, and be forgotten! but if... | |
| Samuel Blodget - Business & Economics - 1806 - 258 pages
...contempt ? C'an you consent to wade through the vileness of dependency, and owe the miserable remains of life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can, go, aud carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule, and what is worse, Hie... | |
| David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...of that life to charily which has been hitherto spent in honour ? — if you can,— go — and cany with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs,...Go, — starve, — and be forgotten ! But if your spirit should revolt at this ; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit enough to oppose tyranny,... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remant of that lite to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour ? If you can. ...go.. ..and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs....the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world. Go, starve, and be forgotten ! But... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent iivhonour ? If you can — go — and carry with you the jest...world. Go, starve, and be forgotten ! But if your spirit should revolt at this ; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit enough to oppose tyranny,... | |
| David Ramsay - Presidents - 1811 - 522 pages
...charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour ? If you can, go ; and carry with you the jest of lories, and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule, and, what is...world ! Go, starve, and be forgotten ! But if your spirit should revolt at this ; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit enough to oppose tyranny,... | |
| John Talbot - North America - 1820 - 526 pages
...and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ;' then, shall I have learned what ingratitude is; then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter... | |
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