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" I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold, bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets. "
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography - Página 281
1890
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Washington and His Country: Being Irving's Life of Washington : Abridged for ...

John Fiske - 1888 - 670 páginas
...and the covering of those states from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier,...feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve...
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The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political ..., Volumen1

James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 802 páginas
...and the covering of those States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier...frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them,...
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George Washington, Volumen1

Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 376 páginas
...covering of these States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can answer those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less...little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, 1 feel superabundantly for them, and from my. soul I pity those miseries which it is neither in my...
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Washington Adapted for a Crisis

Edward Duffield Neill - 1889 - 34 páginas
...assured them " that it was easier to draw a remonstrance' in a comfortable room and by a good fire than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets." In addition to distress for his soldiers he was called to endure another heart pang. Ambitious, conceited,...
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Studies in American History

Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 páginas
...fires . . . [on account of having no blankets.] It is a much easier thing to [find fault with the army] in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to...cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow. . . . For seven days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has...
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Itinerary of General Washington from June 15, 1775, to December 23, 1783

William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 358 páginas
...barefoot and otherwise naked." In making this statement to Congress, and alluding to a memorial, or a remonstrance, of the Assembly of Pennsylvania against...occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and enow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked...
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Washington and His Country: Being Irving's Life of Washington

Washington Irving - 1893 - 668 páginas
...and the covering of those states from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier,...feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve...
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General Washington

Bradley Tyler Johnson - 1894 - 384 páginas
...Wilmington, amounts to no more than eight thousand two hundred in camp fit for duty. . . . I can assure gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing...feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them, and from my soul I pity those miseries which it is neither in my power to relieve...
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The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political, Financial ...

1894 - 844 páginas
...and the covering of those States from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier...frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel abundantly for them,...
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Washington, Or, The Revolution: A Drama Founded Upon the Historic Events of ...

Ethan Allen - 1894 - 278 páginas
...fires. I can assure the gentlemen [Congress] that it is much easier to remonstrate in a comfortable room than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blanket. From my soul I pity the miseries which it is not in my power to prevent." — Bancroft. At...
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