 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 600 halaman
...to whom this younger officer was aide-de-camp. Addressing the army, the anonymous writer had said, " Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserahle remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto heen spent in honor ? If you can, go,... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1856 - 858 halaman
...wretchedness, poverty, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the wild mire of de• pendency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has been hitherto spent in honor, then I have learned what ingratitude is ; then shall I have realized... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 568 halaman
...only sufferers by this Revolution, and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile...the pity of the world ! Go, starve and be forgotten ! But if your spirits should revolt at this ; if you have sense enough to discover, and spirit sufficient... | |
 | John Frost - 1857 - 853 halaman
...sufferers by this revolution; and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile...life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honour ?—Awake; attend to your situation, and redress yourselves. If the present moment be lost,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 508 halaman
...retiring from the field, they are to grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe...to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ; ' then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 550 halaman
...retiring from the field, they are to grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe...to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor , ' then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 588 halaman
...retiring from the field, they are to grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe...to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ; ' then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 500 halaman
...retiring from the field, they are to grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ; if they are to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe...to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ; then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1857 - 472 halaman
...only sufferers by this revolution, and retiring from the Held, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt • Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe Ute miserable remnant of that lile to charily, which has hitherto been s;>ent in honour ? If you can... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1859 - 528 halaman
...the night in such scefitf of revelry and riot that it was called simply the •• Temple." tempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency,...honor ? If you can — go, and carry with you the jests of Tories and the scorn of Whigs, the ridicule, and what is worse, the pity of the world! Go,... | |
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Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this revolution ; and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness, and contempt ? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life... 
