 | William Smyth - Great Britain - 1841 - 518 pages
...old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the 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,... | |
 | Emma Willard - United States - 1843 - 500 pages
...hitherto been spent cH±P- i«• in honor ; then shall I have learned what ingratitude is ; v-^"v*-' then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter every moment of my future life." Congress used their utmost exertions to meet the exigency. They commuted the half-pay which had been pledged... | |
 | Charles Miner - Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779 - 1845 - 614 pages
...poverty, 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 in honour ? If you can, GO, and carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs — the ridicule, and... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 618 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ; " then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then...which will embitter every moment of my future life. But I am under no such apprehensions. A country, rescued by their arms from impending ruin, will never... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 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 hojiour ? If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories, and the scorn of Whigs ; the ridicule,... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1847 - 470 pages
...poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependancy, 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,... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 594 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 'I If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories, and the scorn of Whigs ; the ridicule,... | |
 | Samuel Watkins Eager - Orange County (N.Y.) - 1847 - 672 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 lories and the scorn of whigs — the ridicule,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 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,... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1850 - 448 pages
...poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependancy, 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 and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule,... | |
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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,... 
