 | 1854 - 616 Seiten
...is a much easi'r and less distressing thing, to <lniw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a guou fire-side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep...although they seem to have little feeling for the naked, distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul I pity those mistérica which... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 Seiten
...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 distressing thing,...feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 Seiten
...easier and less distressing thmg to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under...distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and Aom my soul, pity those miseries which it is not in my powar either to relieve or to prevent." All... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 422 Seiten
...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 distressing thing...feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent. "It is for these reasons,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1856 - 516 Seiten
...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 distressing thing,...feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 Seiten
...denied the soldiers clothes, and then wanted them to keep the field in winter. " I can assure these gentlemen," said he, " that it is a much easier and...although they seem to have little feeling for the naked, distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul I pity those 17 miseries which... | |
 | 1856 - 880 Seiten
...were often thrown on the noble name of Washington. "I can assure those gentlemen," Washington wrote, " that it is a much easier and less distressing thing...under frost and snow without clothes or blankets." Washington devoted himself with untiring energy, during the winter, to ameliorate the condition of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1856 - 576 Seiten
...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 distressing thing,...cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, withVOL. in. — 22 out clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 Seiten
...•iis soldiers, he assured them that " it was a much ueasier and less distressing thing to draw up remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside,...under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets " So with regard to the rich man and the operative, there are two points of Tiew from which the State... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 Seiten
...of stocks and stones, and equally insensible of frost and snow. * * * I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing thing...feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." By way of compensation... | |
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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. 
