 | Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 1824 - 524 pages
...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 honour ? If you can — go — and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of. whigs — the ridicule,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 778 pages
...poverty, wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to »ade 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, '50, and carry «hli you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs; the ridicule,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 782 pages
...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 can, go, and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs; the ridicule,... | |
 | Carlo Botta - United States - 1826 - 476 pages
...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 can, go — and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs — the ridicule,... | |
 | James Thacher - American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - 1827 - 494 pages
...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 can — go — and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs — the... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 650 pages
...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 has hitherto been spent in honor, then I shall have realised a tale, which will embitter every moment of my future life. But I... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 562 pages
...owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has, hitherto, been spent in honor,' then I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have...which will embitter every moment of my future life." On the 22d of March, congress granted to the officers five years full pay, in lieu of the half pay,... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 554 pages
...poverty, wretchedness, asd 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 can, go, and carry with you, the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs, the ridicule,... | |
 | Presidents - 1829 - 290 pages
...what had occurred; and earnestly entreated that the just demands of tlie army might be immediately attended to, and that provision might be made for...and then formed a resolution, that in addition to the pay due to them, they should receive full pay for five years; but it would be some time they knew... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...might be immediately attended to, and that provision might be made for a further compensation than a mere pay which was due to the officers. He said, "...is ; then shall I have realized a tale which will imbitter every moment of my future life." Congress received a petition from the officers, and then... | |
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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 charity,... 
