I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However,... George Washington - Seite 221von Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 590 Seiten
...covering of these States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less...it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.* * Alluding to the Memorial, or Remonstrance, of the legislature of Pennsylvania, respecting his going... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 600 Seiten
...covering of these States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less...it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.* * Alluding to the Memorial, or Remonstrance, of the legislature of Pennsylvania, respecting his going... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 594 Seiten
...covering of these States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less...it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.* * Alluding to the Memorial, or Remonstrance, of the legislature of Pennsylvania, respecting his going... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 588 Seiten
...covering of these States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less...it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.* * Alluding to the Memorial, or Remonstrance, of the legislature of Pennsylvania, respecting his going... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 592 Seiten
...covering of these States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less...it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.* * Alluding to the Memorial, or Remonstrance, of the legislature of Pennsylvania, respecting his going... | |
| Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 Seiten
...— " I can assure these gentlemen, that it is a much easier, and less distressing thing to draw up remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fireside,...it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." CHAPTER XH. The American struggle commands attention abroad — France enters into a treaty with the... | |
| Thaddeus Allen - 1847 - 574 Seiten
...have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them ; and,/roOT my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent. ' It is for these reasons, therefore, that I have dwelt upon the subject. And it adds not a little... | |
| George Washington - 1852 - 464 Seiten
...gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortahle room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak...which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent. " It is for these reasons, therefore, that I have dwelt upon the subject; and it adds not a little... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 422 Seiten
...covering of these States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less...which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent. "It is for these reasons, therefore, that I have dwelt upon the subject ; and it adds not a little... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 596 Seiten
...soldiers were made of stocks and stones, and equally insensible of frost and snow. * * * I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier and less...it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." By way of compensation or consolation for extraordinary sufferings, Congress ordered one month's extra... | |
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