 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
 | United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1932 - 636 Seiten
...Congress, and alluding to the remonstrance of the Pennsylvania Legislature, Washington said: "I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less...it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." General LaFayette, who had joined Washington's staff, reported that "the unfortunate soldiers were... | |
 | 1920 - 814 Seiten
...these States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure these gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing...which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent. I am obliged to conceal the true state of the army from public view, and thereby expose myself to destruction... | |
 | John Slade - 2002 - 740 Seiten
...little feeling for the naked, and distressed Soldier, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my Soul pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." Perhaps the most painful proof of our situation (to my eyes) were the frozen horse carcasses throughout... | |
 | Alice L. George - 2006 - 170 Seiten
...Congress of indifference to their plight. "I feel superabundantly for them," he wrote, "and from my soul pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." The problem was not a lack of supplies — the supplies existed. However, the army was unable to transport... | |
 | Dave Richard Palmer - 2006 - 434 Seiten
...little feeling for the naked, distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." It was in that combative mindset that Washington met Thomas Conway when he rode into camp. One can... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - 1915 - 324 Seiten
...cover from depredation and waste, the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. * * * I can assure these gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing...it Is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." Sparks, Life of Washington, pp. 256-257. The whole letter is in Irving, Life of Washington, vol. iii.,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1905 - 358 Seiten
...the naked and distressed soldiers, / feel superabundantly for them ; and from my soul I pity their miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." Let us here pause in our narrative of military and civil movements in America, and briefly consider... | |
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