| Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - 1869 - 358 pagina’s
...if retiring from the field they are to grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe...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 embitter... | |
| Washington Irving - 1869 - 596 pagina’s
...retiring from the field, they are to grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of thaf life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor;' then shall I have learned what ingratitude... | |
| Washington Irving - 1873 - 516 pagina’s
...infirmities, and scars ? Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this Revolution, and, ietiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness,...you can, go, and carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world ! Go, starve and be... | |
| Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1875 - 522 pagina’s
...infirmities and scars. Can yon, then, consent to be the only sufferers by this Revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you 3 Wbat is said of the seditious circular is§ned the 10th of March ? consent to wade through the vile... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pagina’s
...infirmities, and fears? Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness,...to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ? 7. If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule, and,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 1010 pagina’s
...ouly sufferers by this Revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretche<lness and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable /emnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can, go, and carry... | |
| James Watson Webb - 1880 - 438 pagina’s
...infirmities and scars ! Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this resolution; and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness,...you can — go and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs — the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world; go — starve and... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1882 - 740 pagina’s
...poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of despondency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity...you can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories and signature of A™stronE. the scorn of Whigs ; the ridicule, and, what is worse, the pity of the... | |
| United States. Continental Army - 1883 - 118 pagina’s
...infirmities and scars ! Can you) then, consent to be the only sufferers by this resolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness...you can, go, and carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs— the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world ; go, starve, and... | |
| 1883 - 994 pagina’s
...distinction left you but your infirmities and scars ? Can you consent to retire from the field and grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ?...wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If yon can, go and carry with... | |
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