... conveyed infinite delight to my mind, though I was excessively ill at the time. But this prospect was soon clouded, and my hopes brought very low indeed, when I found, that, instead of pushing on with vigor, without regarding a little rough road,... Scribner's Popular History of the United States, from the Earliest ... - Página 264por William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1896Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Marshall - 1804 - 562 páginas
..." that instead of pushing on with vigour, without regarding a little rough road, they were halting to level every molehill, and to erect bridges over every brook." By these means they employed four days in reaching the great crossings of the Yohogany, only nineteen... | |
| 1832 - 564 páginas
..." that instead of pushing on with vigour, without regarding a little rough road, they were halting to level every molehill, and to erect bridges over every brook." By these means they employed four days in reaching the great crossings of the Yohiogany, only nineteen... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 páginas
...found, that, instead of pushing on with vigor, without regarding a little rough road, they were halting to level every molehill, and to erect bridges over...which means we were four days in getting twelve miles. At this camp I was left by the Doctor's advice, and the General's positive orders, as I have already... | |
| George Washington - 1834 - 574 páginas
...found, that, instead of pushing on with vigor, without regarding a little rough road, they were halting to level every molehill, and to erect bridges over...which means we were four days in getting twelve miles. At this camp I was left by the Doctor's advice, and the General's positive orders, as I have already... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 páginas
...essential, carrying our provisions and other necessaries upon horses. little rough road, they were halting to level every molehill, and to erect bridges over...which means we were four days in getting twelve miles. At this camp I was left by the Doctor's advice, and the General's positive orders, as I have already... | |
| John Frost - 1847 - 602 páginas
...follow as fast as he could. Notwithstanding this arrangement, Braddock advanced very slowly, "halting to level every mole-hill, and to erect bridges over every brook, by which means he was four days in advancing twelve miles." At this time Washington was suffering from the effects... | |
| Washington Irving - 1855 - 566 páginas
...movement! of this hardy band. — SazartFi Hey. Penn., iv., 390; also, v., 194. level every mole hill, and to erect bridges over every brook, by which means we were four days in getting twelve miles." For several days Washington had suffered from fever, accompanied by intense headache, and his illness... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 544 páginas
...movement! of this hardy band.— Hazarft Key. Perm., iv., 390; also, v., 194. level every mole hill, and to erect bridges over every brook, by which means we were four days in getting twelve miles/' For several days Washington had suffered from fever, accompanied by intense headache, and his illness... | |
| Washington Irving - 1859 - 498 páginas
...on with vigour, without regarding a little rough road, they were halting to - level every mole hill, and to erect bridges over every brook, by which means we were four days in getting twelve miles." For several days Washington had suffered from fever, accompanied by intense headache, and his illness... | |
| E. Cecil - 1859 - 292 páginas
...on with vigor, without regarding a little rough road, they were halting to level every molehill, and erect bridges over every brook ; by which means we were four days in getting twelve miles." Perhaps he had some reason to be glad of this slowness ; for, on the 24th of June, he was so ill with... | |
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