 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 440 Seiten
...greatest captains of the age. I must soon quit this scene, but you may live to see our country nourish, as it will amazingly and rapidly after the war is...enfeebled and discolored, and which in that weak state, is by a thunder gust of violent wind, hail, and rain, seemed to be threatened with absolute destruction... | |
 | Samuel Thurber - 1924 - 172 Seiten
...in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age. I must soon quit this scene, but you may live to see our country flourish, as it...and discolored, and which in that weak state, by a thundergust of violent wind, hail, and rain, seemed to be threatened with absolute destruction; yet... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1927 - 392 Seiten
...giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age. "I must soon quit this scene, but you may live to see our country flourish, as it...and discolored, and which in that weak state, by a thundergust of violent wind, hail, and rain, seemed to be threatened with absolute destruction; yet... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 298 Seiten
...in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age. I must soon quit this scene, but you may live to see our country flourish, as it...and discolored, and which in that weak state, by a thunder-gust of violent wind, hail, and rain, seemed to be threatened with absolute destruction; yet... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - 1971 - 1530 Seiten
...easily I may hereafter be exceeded in elegance. Letter to Washington, 1780 / must soon quit the scene, but you may live to see our country flourish; as it...after the war is over; like a field of young Indian com, which long fair weather and sunshine had enfeebled and discolored, and which in that weak state,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 Seiten
...two centuries earlier in a letter to George Washington, March 5, 1780: "I must soon quit the Scene, but you may live to see our Country flourish, as it...State, by a Thunder Gust, of violent Wind, Hail, and Rain.'seem'd to be threaten'd with absolute Destruction; yet the Storm being past, it recovers fresh... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...in giving you the Character of one of the greatest Captains of the Age. I must soon quit the Scene, but you may live to see our Country flourish, as it...by a Thunder Gust, of violent Wind, Hail, and Rain, seem'd to be threaten'd with absolute Destruction; yet the Storm being past, it recovers fresh Verdure,... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 Seiten
...in giving you the character of one of the greatest captains of the age. I must soon quit the scene, but you may live to see our country flourish, as it...field of young Indian corn, which long fair weather 8c sunshine had enfeebled and discolored, and which in that weak state, by a thunder gust of violent... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 Seiten
...amazingly and rapidly after the war is over. Like a field of young Indian corn, which long fair weather 6c sunshine had enfeebled and discolored, and which in...weak state, by a thunder gust of violent wind, hail 8crain seemed to be threatened with absolute destruction; yet the storm being past, it recovers fresh... | |
 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 Seiten
...(and others) will live to see our country flourish, as it amazingly and rapidly did after the war was over. Like a field of young Indian corn, which long fair weather and sunshine has enfeebled and discolour'd, and which in that weak state, by a thunder gust of violent wind, hail... | |
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I must soon quit the scene, but you may live to see our country flourish, as it will amazingly and rapidly after the war is over ; like a field of young Indian corn... 
