 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - History - 1869 - 358 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 596 pages
...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... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 pages
...scars 1 Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and, retiring from the fold, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt 1...that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honour ] If you can, go, and carry with yon the jest of Tories and the scorn of Whigs ; the ridicule... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - United States - 1875 - 522 pages
...wretchedness, 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,...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, tyrauny... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...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,...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, and,... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1880 - 658 pages
...which gave no satisfaction. " If this, then." 476 MILITARY INSUBORDINATION. 477 pursued the writer, " be your treatment while the swords you wear are necessary...that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honour f If you can, go, and carry with yon the jest of Tories and the scorn of Whigs ; the ridicule... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 1010 pages
...by this 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... | |
 | James Watson Webb - United States - 1880 - 438 pages
...sufferers by this resolution; and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency,...world; go — starve and be forgotten. But if your spirit should recoil at this, if you have sence enough to discover and spirit sufficient to oppose... | |
 | 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...can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories and signature of A™stronE. the scorn of Whigs ; the ridicule, and, what is worse, the pity of the world... | |
 | United States. Continental Army - United States - 1883 - 118 pages
...sufferers by this resolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency,...world ; go, starve, and be forgotten. But, if your spirit should recoil at this — if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit sufficient to oppose... | |
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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... 
