 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - History - 1869 - 358 pages
...sufferers by the revolution ; if retiring from the field they are to grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 596 pages
...by the Revolution ; if, retiring from the field, they are to grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of thaf life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor;' then shall I have learned what ingratitude... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - United States - 1875 - 522 pages
...and contempt ? Can you 3 Wbat is said of the seditious circular is§ned the 10th of March ? consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe...that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can — go ! and carry with you the jest of Tories and the scorn of Whigs ;— the ridicule,... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Great Britain - 1876 - 588 pages
...inflaming their passions, the officers of the revolution are to be the only sufferers by this revolution, then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter every moment of my future life." The demands of the American army were complied with,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...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...life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ? 7. If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 1010 pages
...Revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretche<lness and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable /emnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can, go, and carry... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - 1882 - 544 pages
...by the revolution ; if, retiring from the field, they are to grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire...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... | |
 | James Watson Webb - United States - 1880 - 438 pages
...resolution; 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...life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can — go and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs — the ridicule,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1882 - 740 pages
...poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of despondency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories and signature of A™stronE. the scorn... | |
 | United States. Continental Army - United States - 1883 - 118 pages
...resolution, 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...that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs— the ridicule,... | |
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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 charity,... 
