 | John Frost - 1853 - 822 σελίδες
...poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour ? — Awake ; attend to your situation, and redress yourselves. If the present moment be lost, every... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1853 - 466 σελίδες
...poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been s;ient in honour ? If you can — go — and carry with you the jest of lories and the scorn of whigs... | |
 | 1853 - 566 σελίδες
...poverty, wretchedness and contempt ? Can jou consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and one the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor? If you can — go ! and carry with you the scorn of Tories, the contempt of Whigs ; the ridicule,... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 586 σελίδες
...old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 σελίδες
...in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule,... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 σελίδες
...in poverty, wretchedness and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If yon can— go, and carry with you the jatt of Tories and tin tcorn of Whigs, the ridicule,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 406 σελίδες
...old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependancy, and owe the miserable remnant of that life 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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 σελίδες
...was called simply the " Temple." tempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can—go, and carry with you the jests of Tories and the scorn of Whigs, the ridicule,... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1856 - 858 σελίδες
...wretchedness, poverty, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the wild mire of de• pendency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has been hitherto spent in honor, then I have learned what ingratitude is ; then shall I have realized... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 500 σελίδες
...dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ? If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of tories, and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule, and, what js worse, the pity of the world ! Go, starve and be forgotten ! But if your spirits should revolt at... | |
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Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity,... 
