 | Washington Irving - 1896 - 668 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,...feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 378 Seiten
...actually wanting for the army." " I can assure those gentlemen," he said, in reply to political criticism, "that it is a much easier and less distressing thing...under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets." The ill feeling did not end with insults. With the defeats of the years 1776 and 1777 it gathered force,... | |
 | Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society - 1897 - 358 Seiten
...gentlemen," said Washington to certain individuals who had remonstrated with him for not keeping the field, " that it is a much easier, and less distressing thing,...feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for 93 them, and from my soul I pity those miseries which it is neither in my power to relieve... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 376 Seiten
...wanting for the army." "I can assure those gentlemen," he said, in reply to political criticism, " that it is a much easier and less distressing thing...under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets." The ill feeling did not end with insults. With the defeats of the years 1776 and 1777 it gathered force,... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1907 - 524 Seiten
...having wintered in Capua. " I can assure those gentlemen," Washington replied, "that it is a much easier thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room,...bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow without blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers,... | |
 | Ethan Allen - 1899 - 574 Seiten
...fires. I can assure the gentlemen [Congress] that it is much easier to remonstrate in a comfortable room than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blanket. From my soul I pity the miseries which it is not in my power to prevent. " — Bancroft, At... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - 1900 - 378 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...feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1777-1795 : Clinton) - 1900 - 968 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...room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak bill, and to sleep under frost and snow wltbout clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1900 - 964 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...thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a-good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and to sleep under frost and snow without clothes... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Springer - 1900 - 282 Seiten
...I wrote to Congress, it is much easier and less distressing to draw up remonstrances and objections in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, exposed to the wintry blast, and to sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets. My men... | |
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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. 
