 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - United States - 1891 - 538 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 honor? If you can — got and carry with you the jest if Tories and the scorn of Whigs ; — the ridicule,... | |
 | New England - 1895 - 814 pages
...old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt ; they are to wade through the vile mire of despondency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ; then shall 1 have learnt what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale which will... | |
 | Murat Halstead - Campaign literature - 1896 - 522 pages
...wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of despondency and owe the 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, the scorn of Whigs, and, what is worse,... | |
 | Murat Halstead - Campaign literature - 1900 - 568 pages
...wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of despondency and owe the 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, the scorn of Whigs, and, what is worse,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 544 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 KNTKA.XUK TO WASHINGTON'» HKAUyf.lKTKRS, MÍWBCRO. in honor? If you can, go, and carry with you the... | |
 | Murat Halsted - 1901 - 1236 pages
...wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of despondency and owe the 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, the scorn of Whigs, and, what is worse,... | |
 | Louis Clinton Hatch - History - 1904 - 250 pages
...Anonymous Address which pictured the miserable fate awaiting the officers, he says that, if this be true, " 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 Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 570 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 —...tale which will embitter every moment of my future fife. " But I am under no such apprehensions ; a country rescued by their arms from impending ruin... | |
 | Louis Clinton Hatch - History - 1903 - 248 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,... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 568 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... | |
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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,... 
