By all accounts there never existed a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are. Taught to believe that the power of Great Britain was superior to all opposition, and that foreign aid, if not, was at hand, they were even higher... Source-readers in American History ... - Sida 2441902Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 sidor
...exiles from Boston in terms that he would never surely have applied to any other of the human race. " By all accounts " there never existed a more miserable set of " beings than these wretched creatures are " They chose to commit themselves to the mercy " of the waves, at a tempestuous season, rather... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 sidor
...government men " in Boston, and acted an unfriendly part in this great contest, Washington observes: "By all accounts there never existed a more miserable...Great Britain was superior to all opposition, and that foreign aid, if not, was at hand, they were even higher and more insulting in their opposition... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1852 - 60 sidor
...sentence is omitted, you would have found these words ; " One or two have done, what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never was a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are." (VoL III. p* 343,) On a... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1852 - 68 sidor
...sentence is omitted, you would have found these words; " One or two have done, what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never was a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are." (Vol. III. p. 343.) On a... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1852 - 48 sidor
...sentence is omitted, you would have found these words ; " One or two have done, what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never was a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are." (Vol. III. p. 343.) On a... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1852 - 254 sidor
...sentence is omitted, you would have found these words; " One or two have done, what a great number ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts, there never was a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures now are." (Vol. III. p. 343.) On a... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 sidor
...exiles from Boston in terms that he would never surely have applied to any other of the human race. " By all " accounts there never existed a more miserable set of ' beings than these wretched creatures are. .... They ' chose to commit themselves to the mercy of the waves, 4 at a tempestuous season, rather... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 sidor
...exiles from Boston in terms that he would never surely have applied to any other of the human race. " By all accounts there never existed a more miserable set of beings than these wretched creatures are They chose to commit themselves to the mercy of the waves, at a tempestuous season, rather than... | |
| Washington Irving - 1855 - 554 sidor
...government men " in Boston, and acted an unfriendly part in this great contest, Washington observes : " By all accounts there never existed ,a more miserable...Great Britain was superior to all opposition, and that foreign aid, if not, was at hand, they were even higher and more insulting in their opposition... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 596 sidor
...them. " One or two of them," he says in a letter to his brother, " have done, what a great numher ought to have done long ago, committed suicide. By all accounts,...all opposition, and, if not, that foreign aid was at Land, they were even higher and more insulting in their opposition than the regulars. When the order... | |
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