The reflection on my situation and that of this army, produces many an unhappy hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in on a thousand accounts ; fewer still will believe, if any disaster happens to these... The Siege of Boston - Pagina 385di Allen French - 1911 - 450 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 580 pagine
...to this and the neighbouring colonies, but with what success time only can tell. The reflection on my situation, and that of this army, produces many...these lines, from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting the command under such circumstances,... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 578 pagine
...to this and the neighbouring colonies, but with what success time only can tell. The reflection on my situation, and that of this army, produces many...these lines, from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting the command under such circumstances,... | |
| George Washington - 1847 - 588 pagine
...this and the neighbouring colonies, but with what sue.* cess time only can tell. The reflection on my situation, and that of this army, produces many...these lines, from what cause it flows. I .have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting the command under such circumstances,... | |
| William Bradford Reed - 1847 - 466 pagine
...time only can tell. The reflection upon my situation, and that of this army, produces many an uneasy hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few...these lines, from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances,... | |
| William Bradford Reed - 1847 - 460 pagine
...situation, and that of this army, produces many an uneasy hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Pew people know the predicament we are in, on a thousand...these lines, from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances,... | |
| Thaddeus Allen - 1847 - 574 pagine
...firm, and absolutely determined.' 1776. Gen. Washington to Joseph Reed, Jan. 14. ' The reflection on my situation, and that of this army, produces many...unhappy hour, when all around me are w.rapped in sleep. • " • * * » * ' I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1848 - 394 pagine
...inaction. " The reflection on my situation and that of this army," he writes, on the 14th of January, 1776, "produces many an unhappy hour when all around me...these lines, from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting the command under such circumstances,... | |
| Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 pagine
...condition. In a letter to Colonel Reed, of the 14th of January, 1776, he says, " The reflection on my situation and that of this army, produces many...these lines, from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting the command under such circumstances,... | |
| Richard Frothingham - 1851 - 460 pagine
...Jan. 14, wrote : " The reflection upon my situation, and that of this army, produces many an uneasy hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few...these lines, from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances,... | |
| George Washington - 1852 - 180 pagine
...time only can tell. The reflection upon my situation and that of this army, produces many an uneasy'3' hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few...if any disaster happens to these Lines, from what causes'33 it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting... | |
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