 permission to attend her husband. Though I was ready to believe (for I had experienced) that patience and fortitude in a supreme degree were to be found, as well as every other virtue, under the most tender forms, I was astonished at this proposal. After...  Three Years in North America - Page 212by James Stuart - 1833 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Frampton - Great Britain - 1885 - 488 pages
...requesting General Gates' permission to attend her husband. Though I was ready to believe (for I had experienced) that patience and fortitude in a supreme...well as every other virtue, under the most tender form, I was astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of the spirits, exhausted not only... | |
 | William Digby - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1887 - 462 pages
...resolved to go to him, and applied to Burgoyne for permission, who says: " Though I was ready to believe that patience and fortitude in a supreme degree were...astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but absolutely want of food, drenched in rains for twelve... | |
 | World history - 1887 - 832 pages
...Petersham, his aide-de-camp, asking permission to depart. ' Though I was ready to believe,' says Burgoyne, ' that patience and fortitude, in a supreme degree,...astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but absolute want of food, drenched in rain for twelve... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Ballads, English - 1893 - 390 pages
...requesting General Gates's 'permission to attend her husband. Though I was ready to believe (for I had experienced) that patience and fortitude in a supreme...astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of spirits, exhausted not only by want of rest, but absolutely by want of food, drenched in rains for... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Saratoga Campaign, N.Y., 1777 - 1895 - 374 pages
...requested permission of Burgoyne to depart. " Though I was ready to believe," says that general, " that patience and fortitude in a supreme degree were...astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but absolutely want of food, drenched in rains for twelve... | |
 | New England - 1897 - 800 pages
...Burgoyne, who had a great admiration for her, writes thus: " Though I was read)' to believe (for I had experienced) that patience and fortitude in a supreme degree were to be found under the most tender forms, I was astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of the spirits,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 488 pages
...Petersham, his aide, asking permission to depart. ' Though I was ready to believe,' says Burgoyne, ' that patience and fortitude, in a supreme degree,...astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest but absolute want of food, drenched in rain for twelve... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 650 pages
...Gates to join her husband. "Though I was ready to believe," writes Burgoyne, "(for I had experience), that patience and fortitude, in a supreme degree,...astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but absolutely want of food, drenched in rains for twelve... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 660 pages
...Gates to join her husband. " Though I was ready to believe," writes Burgoyne, " (for I had experience), that patience and fortitude, in a supreme degree,...astonished at this proposal. After so long an agitation of spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but absolutely want of food, drenched in rain for twelve... | |
 | Albany (N.Y.) - 1906 - 1328 pages
...frail a person to carry out, as shown by this entrr in his records : " Though I was ready to believe that patience and fortitude in a supreme degree were to be found, a/, well as every other virtue, under the most tender forms, I whs astonished at this proposal. After... | |
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