 By all accounts there never existed a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are. Taught to believe that the power of Great Britain was superior to all opposition, and...  Life of George Washington - Page 41by Washington Irving - 1857Full view - About this book
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 580 pages
...conceived. One or two have done, what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never existed a more miserable...Great Britain was superior to all opposition, and, if not, that foreign aid was at hand, they were even higher and more insulting in their opposition... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...exiles from Boston in terms that he would never surely have applied to any other of the human race. " By all accounts " there never existed a more miserable set of " beings than these wretched creatures are " They chose to commit themselves to the mercy " of the waves, at a tempestuous season, rather... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...conceived. One or two have done, what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never existed a more miserable...Great Britain was superior to all opposition, and, if not, that foreign aid was at hand, they were even higher and more insulting in their opposition... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 588 pages
...conceived. One or two have done, what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never existed a more miserable...Great Britain was superior to all opposition, and, if not, that foreign aid was at hand, they were even higher and more insulting in their opposition... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pages
...government men " in Boston, and acted an unfriendly part in this great contest, Washington observes: "By all accounts there never existed a more miserable...therefore, for embarking the troops in Boston, no electric shock — no sudden clap of thunder, — in a word the last trump could not have struck them with greater... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Manuscripts - 1852 - 60 pages
...what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never was a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are." (VoL III. p* 343,) On a moment's comparison you will observe, that the paragraph containing the passage,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1852 - 254 pages
...what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never was a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are." (Vol. III. p. 343.) On a moment's comparison you will observe, that the paragraph containing the passage,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Manuscripts - 1852 - 68 pages
...what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never was a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are." (Vol. III. p. 343.) On a moment's comparison you will observe, that the paragraph containing the passage,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1852 - 48 pages
...what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never was a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are." (Vol. III. p. 343.) On a moment's comparison you will observe, that the paragraph containing the passage,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...exiles from Boston in terms that he would never surely have applied to any other of the human race. " By all " accounts there never existed a more miserable set of ' beings than these wretched creatures are. .... They ' chose to commit themselves to the mercy of the waves, 4 at a tempestuous season, rather... | |
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