 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honour,' then shall I have learned what ingratitude is ; then...impending ruin will never leave unpaid the debt of gratitude. " Should any intemperate and improper warmth have mingled itself among the foregoing observations,... | |
 | Emma Willard - United States - 1852 - 560 pages
...hitherto been spent CHAP. xu. in honor ; then shall I have learned what ingratitude is ; ^-«"-v-^/ then shall I have realized a tale which will embitter every moment of my future life." Congress used their utmost exertions to meet the exigency. They commuted the half-pay which had been... | |
 | 1853 - 566 pages
...realization of the treatment they were threatened with at the hands of the civil authorities, he says, 11 then shall I have learned what ingratitude is; then...impending ruin will never leave unpaid the debt of gratitude." Nevertheless, in despite of the confidence thus expressed by their commander, the army,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor;' then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then...impending ruin, will never leave unpaid the debt of gratitude." This letter to the President was accompanied by other letters to members of Congress ;... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 586 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ; " then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then...impending ruin, will never leave unpaid the debt of gratitude. Should any intemperate or improper warmth have mingled itself in the foregoing observations,... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity whic h baa hitherto been spent in honor, then shall I have learned what ingratitude is ; then...apprehensions. A country rescued by their arms from impending nrtn will never leave Unpaid the debt of gtWftude."— 8 Sparks, p. 396. t Three days afterwards, Washington... | |
 | Emma Willard - United States - 1856 - 590 pages
...miserable PERIOD IL remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent c«Ap- «*• in honor ; then shall I have learned what ingratitude is ; ^^~^"^^...which will embitter every moment of my future life." Congress used their utmost exertions to meet the exigency. They commuted the half-pay which had been... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 858 pages
...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...which will embitter every moment of my future life." This eloquent appeal produced the proper effect, and in a few days the resolution giving "commutation"... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 406 pages
...dependancy, and owe the miserable remnant of that life 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 imbitter every moment of my future life. But I am under no such apprehensions. A country, rescued by... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 588 pages
...dependency, and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity, which has hitherto been spent in honor ; ' then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then...impending ruin, will never leave unpaid the debt of gratitude." This letter to the President was accompanied by other letters to members of Congress ;... | |
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... then shall I have learned what ingratitude is, then shall I have realized a tale, which will embitter every moment of my future life. But I am under no such apprehensions. A country, rescued by their arms from impending ruin, will never leave unpaid... 
