 | Charles Bradlaugh - 1899 - 256 Seiten
...fit for the accommodation of a soldier, little is to be done, and, what is mortifying, I know that I cannot stand justified to the world without exposing...declaring my wants ; which I am determined not to do further than unavoidable necessity brings every man acquainted with them My own situation is so irksome... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1908 - 622 Seiten
...fit for the accommodation of a soldier, little is to be done ; and, what is mortifying, I know that I cannot stand justified to the world without exposing...declaring my wants ; which I am determined not to do, further than unavoidable necessity brings every man acquainted with them. tranquillity, I should long... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 626 Seiten
...fit for the accommodation of a soldier, little is to be done ; and, what is mortifying, I know that I cannot stand justified to the world without exposing...declaring my wants ; which I am determined not to do, further than unavoidable necessity brings every man acquainted with them. " My own situation is so... | |
 | Owen Wister - 1907 - 314 Seiten
...anything fit for the accommodation of a soldier, little is to be done. . . . My own situation feels so irksome to me at times, that, if I did not consult...own tranquillity, I should long ere this have put everything to the cast of a Dye. . . . Your letter of the i8th descriptive of the jealousies and uneasiness... | |
 | George Washington - 1908 - 500 Seiten
...for the accommodation of a soldier, little is to be done; and, which is mortifying, I know, that I cannot stand justified to the world without exposing...declaring my wants, which I am determined not to do, further than unavoidable necessity brings every man acquainted with them. If, under these disadvantages,... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1909 - 538 Seiten
...Washington wrote on February 9 and, on the next day, he declared in a letter to Joseph Reed: " My own situation is so irksome to me at times, that if I...own tranquillity, I should long ere this have put everything on the cast of a die. So far from my having an army of twenty thousand men well armed, I... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 434 Seiten
...is mortifying, I know that I cannot stand justified to the world without exposing my own weaknesses, and injuring the cause, by declaring my wants ; which I am determined not to do, further than unavoidable necessity brings every man acquainted with them. " My own situation is so... | |
 | 1842 - 700 Seiten
...fit for the accommodation of a soldier, little is to be done : and, what is mortifying, I know that I cannot stand justified to the world without exposing my own weakness and injuring the cause, which I am determined not to do." " My own situation is so irksome to me at times that, if I did not... | |
 | James Hosmer Penniman - 1917 - 24 Seiten
...exposing my own ^1 / weakness, and injuring the cause, which I am '_ ' determined not to do. . . . My own situation is so irksome to me at times, that, if I...own tranquillity, I should, long ere this, have put everything on the cast of a die."/ His success was due to constant striving against adverse circumstances;... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1918 - 280 Seiten
...of our lives." Of his struggles and hardships, the Commander wrote to his absent secretary : "My own situation is so irksome to me at times that if I did not consult the public good more than my tranquillity, I should long ere this have put everything on the cast of a die. So far from having an... | |
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I know the unhappy predicament in which I stand; Letter to joI know that much is expected of me ; I know, that, without men, without arms, without ammunition, without any thing fit for the accommodation of a soldier, little is to be done ; and, what is... 
