 | Rudolf Cronau - 1923 - 168 σελίδες
...wretchedness, and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the 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, the scorn of Whigs, and, what is worse,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1926 - 552 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 honour,' then shall I have learned what ingratitude is; then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1902 - 712 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 honor? — If yon [you] can — Go — and carry with you, the jest of Tories, and the scorn of Whigs... | |
 | George Washington - 1783 - 618 σελίδες
...grow old in poverty wretchedness and contempt. If they are to wade thro' the vile mire of dependency and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor," 4S then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale, which... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1932 - 860 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... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 1991 - 470 σελίδες
...wretchedness and contempt," Could they, he asked, "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 so, they would be pitied, ridiculed, for suffering this last indignity. They had bled too... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Samet - 2004 - 300 σελίδες
...in poverty, wretchedness, and Contempt; can you consent, to wade thro' 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, & the Scorn of Whigs—the ridicule—and... | |
 | Bruce Chadwick - 2005 - 595 σελίδες
...sides, and no remaining mark of military distinction left but your wants, infirmities, and scars?... Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of despondency...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... | |
 | Carlo Botta - 1834 - 510 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,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 584 σελίδες
...army, the anonymous writer had said, " 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 7 If you can, go, and carry with you the jest of Tories and the scorn of Whigs ; the ridicule,... | |
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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,... 
