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" I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. "
Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion - Page 417
1854
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An Essay on the Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the ...

Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under...although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul, pity those miseries which...
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Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army Through ...

Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under...although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the Armies of the ...

David Ramsay - Presidents - 1811 - 522 pages
...complaincrs, " that it Was much easier to draw up remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fire side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets." To the other vexations which crowded on Gen. Washington at the close of the campaign of 1777, was added...
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The Life of George Washington

Presidents - 1829 - 290 pages
...suffering troops, and he said, " It is much easier to censure by a good fire side, in a comfortable room, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without either clothes or blankets." Restless, busy bodies, raised a report that he was wearied of his situation,...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 1

1832 - 564 pages
...is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire-side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep...although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which...
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The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous ...

George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 590 pages
...it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep...although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries,...
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The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous ...

George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 600 pages
...it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep...although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries,...
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The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Volume 1

James Herring, James Barton Longacre - Portrait prints - 1834 - 396 pages
...that it is much easier and less distressing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep...although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which...
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The Life of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 1

John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 456 pages
...remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire-side, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleop under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little fesling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 1

John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 534 pages
...is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fire-side, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep...although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries which...
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