If this then be your treatment, while the swords you wear are necessary for the defence of America, what have you to expect from peace, when your voice shall sink, and your strength dissipate by division ; when those very swords, the instruments and companions,... Life of George Washington - Page 435by Washington Irving - 1884Full view - About this book
| John Randolph, John Vardill - Presidents - 1796 - 332 pages
...diftindtions be left, but your marks, infirmities and fears ? Can you then confent to be the.only furterers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old- in poverty, wretchednefs and contempt ? Can you confent to wade through the vilenefs of dependency, and owe the... | |
| George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 232 pages
...shall be taken from your sides, and no remaining mark of military distinctions be left, but your marks, infirmities, and scars ? can you then consent to be...and contempt ? can you consent to wade through the vileness of dependency, and owe the miserable remains of life to charity, which has hitherto been spent... | |
| George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 240 pages
...peace when your voice shall sink, and your strength dissipate by division ? when those very swords, the instruments and companions of your glory shall be...from your sides, and no remaining mark of military distinctions be left, but your marks, infirmities, and scars ? can you then consent to be the only... | |
| John Marshall - Generals - 1805 - 666 pages
...peace, when your voice shall sink, and your strength dissipate by division ? when those very swords, the instruments and companions of your glory, shall be...and contempt? can you consent to wade through the CHAP. xi. vile mire of dependency, and owe the miser- 1783. able remnant of that life to charity, which... | |
| Samuel Blodget - Business & Economics - 1806 - 258 pages
...are called to consider to-morrow make the reply. Can you then consent to 1»e the onty sufferers of this revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow...and 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... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...peace, when your voice shall sink, and your strength dissipate by division ? When those very swords, the instruments and companions of your glory shall be...the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remant of that lite to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour ? If you can. ...go.. ..and... | |
| David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...when your voice shall sink, and your strength dissipate by division? " When these very swords, the instruments and companions of your glory, shall be...left, but your wants, infirmities, and scars ! Can you thea consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, , and. the war, that I am indifferent to... | |
| David Ramsay - Generals - 1814 - 274 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 that life to charity, which had hitherto been spent in honour ;' then shall I have learned what ingratitude is ; then shall I havp... | |
| United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 1024 pages
...voice shall sink, and your strength ifaa'pate by division ? When those very swords, the ins^r.imcnts bject of the one party, (hat life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor?—If you can—t;o—and carry with you,... | |
| United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 1022 pages
...peace, when your voice shall sink, and your strength dissipate by division r When those very swords, the instruments and companions of your glory, shall be...and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vue mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been... | |
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