 | John O. Raum - 1877 - 512 páginas
...said in view of the numbers, discipline and position of the British army, contrasted with his own : ' You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation....believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties and * New Ho^e is about thirty miles from Philadelphia, and sixteen from Trenton. less means to extricate... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 páginas
...strained to recruit the army with all possihle expedition, I think the game is pretty nearly up. * * * You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1885 - 592 páginas
...recruit the army with all possible expedition, I think the game is pretty nearly up. You can form uo idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1887 - 800 páginas
...expedition, I think the game is pretty nearly up. ... I cannot entertain the idea that [our cause] will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud." Each day brought new difficulties to be overcome. When it was learned that the fleet that had sailed... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1889 - 368 páginas
...most somber of those dark days he wrote to his brother, " I cannot entertain the idea that our cause will finally sink though it may remain for some time under a cloud." And it was from under this cloud that he determined to bring the cause that was dearer to him than... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 356 páginas
...part of the Province ; and, between you and me, I think our aft'airs are in a very bad situation. . . You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation....cannot entertain an Idea, that it will finally sink, tho' it may remain for some time under a cloud." — Washington to John Augustine Washington. FRIDAY,... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 358 páginas
...part of the Province ; and, between you and me, I think our affairs are in a very bad situation. . . You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation....cannot entertain an Idea, that it will finally sink, tho' it may remain for some time under a cloud." — Washington to John Augustine Washington. FRIDAY,... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 356 páginas
...part of the Province ; and, between you and me, I think our affairs are in a very bad situation. . . You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation....believe, ever had a greater choice of difficulties, and leas means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause,... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 358 páginas
...part of the Province ; and, between you and me, I think our affairs are in a very bad situation. . . You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation. "No man, I believe, ever had a greater choice of diffieulties, and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the... | |
 | Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 268 páginas
...The Commander-in-chief from Keith's farm-house, near Trenton, wrote his brother John Augustine : " You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation....cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, tho' it may remain for some time under a cloud." 1787 New Jersey ratified the Federal Constitution.... | |
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No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under... 
