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. The Life of Alexander Hamilton - Seite 153von John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 422 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 Seiten
...and the covering of those States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier,...good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 466 Seiten
...campaign, and the covering these 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 thmg to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 Seiten
...the covering those states from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I ran assure those gentlemen. that it is a much easier and less distressing thmg to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 422 Seiten
...and the covering of these States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier...good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little... | |
| J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 Seiten
...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 less distressing thing...fire-side, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little... | |
| 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...good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets." Washington devoted himself with untiring energy,... | |
| 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, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets " So with regard to the rich man and the operative,... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 596 Seiten
...thought the soldiers were made of stocks and stones, and equally insensible of frost and snow. * * * I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier...good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1857 - 610 Seiten
...to sit up all night by fires instead of taking comfortable rest in a natural way. I can assure these gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing...good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1857 - 612 Seiten
...to sit up all night by fires instead of taking comfortable rest in a natural way. I can assure these gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing...good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little... | |
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