 | Lewis Alexander Leonard - 1918 - 352 Seiten
...made of sticks and stones. I can assure these gentlemen that it is much easier and less distressing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak bill, and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have... | |
 | Norma Helen Deming, Katharine Isabel Bemis, K. I. Bemis - 1918 - 200 Seiten
...He said it was much easier to find fault "in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to camp upon a cold, bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets." Not all the soldiers were Americans by any means. Some of them were foreigners who had come to America... | |
 | Sidney Coe Howard - 1925 - 98 Seiten
...become of the army this winter ? We are barefoot and naked. Soldiers are not made of sticks and stones to occupy a cold, bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets. Unless some great and capital change takes place, this army must inevitably starve, dissolve or disperse.... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - 1925 - 436 Seiten
...these States from the invasion of the enemy so easy and practicable a business. I can assure these gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing...frost and snow without clothes or blankets. However, as they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for... | |
 | John Marshall - 1926 - 578 Seiten
...and the covering of their states from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to prevent." The representations... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - 664 Seiten
...going into winter quarters as much as if they thought the soldiers were made of sticks and stones. I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier...bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow without cold or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers,... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - 670 Seiten
...going into winter quarters as much as if they thought the soldiers were made of sticks and stones. I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier...bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow without cold or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers,... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 Seiten
...board of control. Stung by criticism, Washington assured the Congress, with broad irony, that it was "a much easier and less distressing thing to draw...under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets." His firmness and good sense rallied his friends and in time he had the pleasure of seeing the cabal... | |
 | Fannie Eoline Selph - 1928 - 416 Seiten
...sticks and stones," said he. "I assure you it is much easier to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room than to occupy a cold, bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets. From my soul I pity their miseries which it is not in my power to relieve or prevent." Under rude huts,... | |
 | Henry Laurens - 1968 - 742 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...draw Remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost & snow without Cloathes or Blankets:... | |
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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. 
