 | William Bradford Reed - United States - 1847 - 462 pages
...— I have applied to this and the neighbouring colonies, but with what success, time only can tell. The reflection upon my situation, and that of this...uneasy hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Pew people know the predicament we are in, on a thousand accounts — fewer still will believe, if... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...time only can telL The reflection on my situation, and that of this army, produces many an unhappy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few...know the predicament we are in on a thousand accounts ; and fewer still will believe, if any disaster happens to these lines, from what cause it flows. /... | |
 | George Washington, William Bradford Reed - 1852 - 180 pages
...— I have applied to this and the neighbouring colonies, but with what success, time only can tell. The reflection upon my situation and that of this army, produces many an uneasy'3' hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in,... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1857 - 490 pages
...situation of the army, however, was extremely distressing. " My reflec. tion upon it," wrote Washington, " produces many an uneasy hour, when all around me are...happens to these lines, from what cause it flows. If I shall be able to rise superior to these and many other difficulties which might be enumerated,... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1857 - 494 pages
...the army, however, was extremely distressing. " My reflecJan.H. tion upon it," wrote Washington, " produces many an uneasy hour, when all around me are...fewer still will believe, if any disaster happens to thase lines, from what cause it flows. If I shall be able to rise superior to these and many other... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 640 pages
...his sleeping camp ? " The reflection on my situation and that of this army, produces many an unhappy hour, when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few...still will believe, if any disaster happens to these linos, from what cause it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - Massachusetts - 1875 - 746 pages
...attempt. Washington viewed the situation with many misgivings. " My reflection upon it," he wrote, " produces many an uneasy hour, when all around me are...happens to these lines, from what cause it flows. If I should be able to rise superior to these, and many other difficulties which might be enumerated,... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - Massachusetts - 1884 - 688 pages
...attempt. Washington viewed the situation with many misgivings. " My reflection upon it," he wrote, " produces many an uneasy hour, when all around me are...happens to these lines, from what cause it flows. If I should be able to rise superior to these, .and many other difficulties which might be enumerated,... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1889 - 550 pages
...applied to this and the neighboring colonies, but with what success time only can tell. The reflection on my situation, and that of this army, produces many...if any disaster happens to these lines, from what causes it flows. I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if, instead of accepting... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 378 pages
...physical strain there was a mental one. During the siege of Boston he wrote that "The reflection on my situation and that of this army, produces many...uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep." Humphreys relates that at Newburg in 1783 a revolt of the whole army seemed imminent, and "when General... | |
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The reflection on my situation, and that of this army, produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in... 
