 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...campaign, and the covering these states from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier...draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to prevent." All these efforts... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...campaign, and the covering these states from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier...draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets... | |
 | 1809 - 574 pages
...without adequate means. * I can assure those gentlemen,' says Washington, alluding to his calumniators, ' that it is a much easier and less distressing thing...draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good lire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost or snow without clothes or blankets.'... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1811 - 522 pages
...complaincrs, " that it Was much easier to draw up remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets." To the other vexations which crowded on Gen. Washington at the close of the campaign of 1777, was added... | |
 | 1829 - 290 pages
...suffering troops, and he said, " It is much easier to censure by a good fire side, in a comfortable room, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without either clothes or blankets." Restless, busy bodies, raised a report that he was wearied of his situation,... | |
 | 1832 - 564 pages
...and the covering of their states from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to prevent." The representations... | |
 | James Herring, James Barton Longacre - 1834 - 396 pages
...demonstration. " I can assure those gentlemen," said he, " that it is much easier and less distressing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or prevent." The exertions which... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 456 pages
...by these agitators.f An incident occurred at this time, which marks the effect * January 16, 1778. t "I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier...fire-side, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleop under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little... | |
 | John Marshall - 1836 - 534 pages
...and the covering of their states from the invasion of an enemy, so easy and practicable a business. I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier...I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which it is not in my power either to relieve or to prevent." The representations... | |
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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. 
