...for disgust. ' You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation,' he wrote to his brother. ' No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate liimself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain...

...officer and was now a prisoner with the British. In the intensity of his feeling, Washington exclaimed: "No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from them.'' And yet, in the next breath he added, with that confidence which never deserted him: "However, under...

...for disgust. ' You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation,' he wrote to his brother. ' No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties,...though it may remain for some time under a cloud.' 1 The only true test of constancy, on land or sea, in public or in private life, is when foul weather...

...Philadelphia was threatened, and the WJiigs in that city were almost panic-stricken. Washington wrote, "No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties and less means to extricate himself from them." Congress, charging Washington with dictatorial powers, fled from Philadelphia to Baltimore, while Eastern...

...Philadelphia was threatened, and the Whigs in that city were almost panic-stricken. Washington wrote, "No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties and less means to extricate himself from them." Congress, charging Washington with dictatorial powers, fled from Philadelphia to Baltimore, while Eastern...

...evil consequences of which were foretold fifteen months ago, with a spirit almost Prophetic. . . . You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation....finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud.1 Washington stood with his forlorn little army on the west bank of the Delaware above Trenton....

...possible expedition," he wrote to his brother on December 18, " I think the game is pretty well up. . . . You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation....that it will finally sink, though it may remain for sometime under a cloud." (Writings, vol. v, p. 109.) For Burke's pessimistic view of the American position...

...gave up hope. Not so, George Washington: at this darkest hour, he wrote to his brother in Virginia: "You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation....cannot entertain an Idea, that it will finally sink, tho' it may remain for some time under a cloud."* Two days later he wrote the Continental Congress,...

...required some deep inner source of hope and courage to pen these words to his brother, John Augustine: "You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation....difficulties, and less means to extricate himself from Crossing of the Delaware; manoeuvres in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. © Ernest Peixotto. Courtesy...

...every nerve is not strained to recruit the new army ... I think the game is pretty nearly up. . . . However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I can not entertain an Idea that it will finally sink, tho' it may remain for some time under a cloud."...