 | Hugh Murray - Publishers' catalogs - 1851 - 556 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 ? — Awake ; attend to your situation, and redress yourselves. If the present moment be lost, every... | |
 | Emma Willard - United States - 1852 - 560 pages
...hitherto been spent CHAP. xu. in honor ; then shall I have learned what ingratitude is ; ^-«"-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... | |
 | Carlo Botta - United States - 1852 - 974 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 toriesand the scorn of whigs — the ridicule,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, honor ? If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories and the scorn of Whigs ; the ridicule,... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1853 - 822 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 ? — Awake ; attend to your situation, and redress yourselves. If the present moment be lost, every... | |
 | 1853 - 566 pages
...poverty, wretchedness and contempt ? 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,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1853 - 466 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 s;ient in honour ? If you can — go — and carry with you the jest of lories and the scorn of whigs... | |
 | William Smyth - History, Modern - 1854 - 554 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 honour? If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories and the scorn of Whigs; the ridicule, and, what... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 586 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 shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale, which will... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 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,... | |
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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,... 
