 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in...pity of the world ! Go, starve, and be forgotten." The writer now changes from appeal to advice. " I would advise you, therefore," he says, " to come... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 946 pages
...owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ? li yon can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories and...pity of the world \ Go, starve, and be forgotten." The writer now changes from appeal to advice. " I would advise you, therefore," he says, " to come... | |
 | Carlo Botta - United States - 1852 - 974 pages
...Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in...If you can, go — and carry with you the jest of toriesand the scorn of whigs — the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world. Go, starve,... | |
 | 1853 - 566 pages
...Can jou consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and one the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can — go ! and carry with you the scorn of Tories, the contempt of Whigs ; the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity, of the world !... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in...world ! Go, starve and be forgotten ! But if your spirits should revolt at this ; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit sufficient to oppose... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 586 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor 1 If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories,...world ! Go, starve and be forgotten ! But if your spirits should revolt at this ; if you have sense enough to discover and spirit sufficient to oppose... | |
 | Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...submission to such injury and contumely, as exposing the high-spirited soldier to " the jest of lories and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule, and, what is worse, the pity of the world." Finally, the writer called upon his fellow-soldiers, never to sheath their swords until they had obtained... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1856 - 600 pages
...vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserahle remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto heen spent in honor ? If you can, go, and carry with you...the pity of the world ! Go, starve, and be forgotten !" To this Washington replied, " Let me request you to rely on the plighted faith of your country,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 pages
...Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can—go, and carry with you the jests of Tories and the scorn of Whigs, the ridicule, and what is... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 588 pages
...Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in...; the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the worlil ! Go, starve and be forgotten ! But if your spirits should revolt at this ; if you have sense... | |
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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 charity which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you... 
