 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1868 - 678 pages
...hope which has hitherto supported them, of a change for the • Hamilton's Works, ii. 178. better. To me it will appear miraculous, if our affairs can...themselves much longer in their present train. If cither the temper or the resources of the country will not admit of an alteration, we may expect soon... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1873 - 524 pages
...not depend upon this people or upon their means." * It was soon afterwards that Washington wrote, " If either the temper or the resources of the country...humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America in America upheld by foreign arms." "But I give it as my opinion," he wrote again, " that a foreign... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 pages
...On the 20th of August, he wrote to a friend : — " To me it will appear miraculous if our ;iintirs can maintain themselves much longer in their present...the temper or the resources of the country will not permit of an alteration, we may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition of seeing the... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...not depend upon this people or upon their means." ^ It was soon afterwards that Washington wrote, " If either the temper or the resources of the country...humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America in America upheld by foreign arms." " But I give it as my opinion," he wrote again, " that a foreign... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...not depend upon this people or upon their means." * It was soon afterwards that Washington wrote, " If either the temper or the resources of the country...humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America in America upheld by foreign arms." " But I give it as my opinion," he wrote again, " that a foreign... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - United States - 1876 - 618 pages
...If 'either the temper or the resources of the country' would not admit of an alteration, they might 'expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America, in America, upheld by foreign arms.' If ' something satisfactory' were not done, ' the army (already... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 646 pages
...the hope which has hitherto supported them, of a change for the * Hamilton's Works, ii. 176. better. To me it will appear miraculous, if our affairs can...humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America, in America, upheld by foreign arms. The generosity of our allies has a claim to all our confidence... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1880 - 658 pages
...the 20th of August, he wrote to a friend : — " To me it will appear miraculous if our affairs cart maintain themselves much longer in their present train....the temper or the resources of the country will not permit of an alteration, we may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition of seeing the... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1887 - 586 pages
...certainly will not outlive the campaign unless it finds something more substantial to rest upon. ... To me it will appear miraculous if our affairs can maintain themselves much lunger in their present train. If either the temper or the resources of the country will not admit... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Presidents - 1889 - 376 pages
...as well as foolish. After stating plainly that the army was on the verge of dissolution, he said: " To me it will appear miraculous if our affairs can...humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America, in America, upheld by foreign arms. The generosity of our allies has a claim to all our confidence... | |
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To me it will appear miraculous, if our affairs can maintain themselves much longer in their present train. If either the temper or the resources of the country will not admit of an alteration, we may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition... 
