 | 1802 - 440 trang
...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 the scorn of whigs— the... | |
 | John Marshall - 1805 - 666 trang
...can you consent to wade through the CHAP. xi. vile mire of dependency, and owe the miser- 1783. able remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour? If you can... go.. .and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs...the ridicule, and... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 trang
...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 ? If you can — go — and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs, the ridicule,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 trang
...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 iivhonour ? If you can — go — and carry with you the jest of tories and the scorn of whigs, the... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1811 - 522 trang
...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 ? If you can, go ; and carry with you the jest of lories, and the scorn of whigs ; the ridicule, and,... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1814 - 274 trang
...through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which had hitherto been spent in honour ;' then shall I have learned what ingratitude is ; then shall I havp realized a tale which will embitter every moment of my future life. "-But I am under no such apprehensions... | |
 | John Talbot - 1820 - 526 trang
...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... | |
 | Samuel Putnam Waldo - 1823 - 418 trang
...poverty and wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependancy, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honour ?"* Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair was not the only Hero of the Revolution who lived to witness the fulfilment... | |
 | James Thacher - 1823 - 686 trang
...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,... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - 1823 - 1022 trang
...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 hit lin-to been spent in honor," then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized... | |
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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,... 
