I have seen nothing since I came here, on the 22d instant, to change my opinion of men or measures; but abundant reason to be convinced, that our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable condition, than they have been since the commencement... France in the American Revolution - Página 6por James Breck Perkins - 1911 - 544 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 572 páginas
...they are bound by principles of honor, grati tude, and affection. I am, &c. "JOHN JAT, President." a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable condition,...they have been since the commencement of the war. By a faithful laborer, then, in the cause ; by a man, who is daily injuring his private estate, without... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 578 páginas
...they are bound by principles of honor, grati tude, and affection. I am, &c. "JOHN JAY, President." a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable condition,...they have been since the commencement of the war. By a faithful laborer, then, in the cause ; by a man, who is daily injuring his private estate, without... | |
| Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 430 páginas
...hist., to change my opinion of men or measures; but abundant reason to be convinced, that our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous and deplorable condition,...they have been since the commencement of the war. ******** '' If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times, and of men, from what I have... | |
| Washington Irving - 1856 - 516 páginas
...Colonel Harrison, the speaker of its House of Delegates, written on the 30th of December. " Our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable...they have been since the commencement of the war. By a faithful laborer, then, in the cause ; by a man who is daily injuring his private estate without... | |
| William Nathaniel Massey - 1858 - 500 páginas
...the last day of December, he gives a deplorable account of the condition of affairs : ' Our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous and deplorable condition than they have been 430 FORTITUDE AND PERSEVERANCE Ch. 23. by no querulous or incompetent observer of an ^ . assembly,... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 872 páginas
...it, he saw nothing but ruin. " I have abundant reason to be convinced," he said, " that our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable...they have been since the commencement of the war.... If I were called upon," he continued, " to draw a picture of the times, and of men, from what I have... | |
| Washington Irving - 1861 - 509 páginas
...Colonel Harrison, the speaker of its House of Delegates, written on the 30th of December. " Our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable...they have been since the commencement of the war. By a faithful laborer, then, in the cause ; by a man who is daily injuring his private estate without... | |
| Henry Barton Dawson - 1863 - 234 páginas
...instant, to change my opinion of men or measures; but abundant reason to be convinced, that our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable...than they have been since the commencement of the var. !ïy a faithful laborer, then, in the cause; by a man who is daily injuring his private estate,... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1865 - 902 páginas
...the war was virtually ended. \Vash1779. ington wrote, at the beginning of the year : " Our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable...they have been since the commencement of the war." A large majority of Congress was carried away with the scheme of joining with the French in an expedition... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1867 - 834 páginas
...the v/ar was virtually ended. Wash1779. ington wrote,, at the beginning of the year : " Our affairs are in a more distressed, ruinous, and deplorable...they have been since the commencement of the war/' A large majority of Congress was carried away with the scheme of joining with the French in an expedition... | |
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