 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1905 - 390 pages
...justice felt that they had sacrificed their comfort and were now treated with scorn and contumely. "Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by...life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour! — If you can — GO — and carry with you, the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs —... | |
 | United States - 1905 - 458 pages
...sides, and no remaining mark of military distinction be left, but your wants, infirmities, and scars ? Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this...wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe to charity the miserable remnant of that life which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can, go,... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - United States - 1909 - 632 pages
...impassioned language was more likely to excite the resentment of the troops. "Can you then, "the paper asked, "consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty and wretchedness and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of despondency, and owe... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - United States - 1909 - 648 pages
...Title-page of the first Printed Edition of the from the field, grOW old Newburg Letter, jn poverty and wretchedness and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of despondency, and owe the miserable remnant .of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent... | |
 | John Lawrence Lambe - English drama - 1911 - 404 pages
...sides, and no remaining mark of military distinction be left but your wants, infirmities, scars ? Will you, then, consent to be the only sufferers by this...field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt ? Think what it means to owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - United States - 1921 - 704 pages
...exciting their resentment. " Can you then," said this address, " consent to be the only sufferers by the Revolution, and retiring from the field grow old in...contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of despondency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in... | |
 | Rudolf Cronau - United States - 1923 - 168 pages
...military distinction left you but your infirmities and scars? Can you consent to retire from the field and grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt? Can...wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor? "If you can, go and carry with... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 552 pages
...your sides, and no remaining mark of military distinction left but your wants, infirmities, and scars? Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this...that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honour? If you can — go — and carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs; — the... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Samet - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...consent," the author of the addresses demanded, "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 thro' the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to Charity, which has... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 417 pages
...your sides, and no remaining mark of military distinction left but your wants, infirmities, and scars? Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this...field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt f Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that... | |
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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... 
