 It is surprising how much work has been done. The lines are extended almost from Cambridge to Mystic River, so that very soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy to get between the works, except in one place, which is supposed to be left purposely...  Oliver Goldsmith - Page 357by Washington Irving - 1859Full view - About this book
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 580 pages
...how much work has been done. The lines are extended almost from Cambridge to Mystic River, so that very soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy...intrenchments, and all the lands, fields, orchards laid common, horses and cattle feeding in the choicest mowing land, whole fields of corn eaten down to the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...how much work has been done. The lines are extended almost from Cambridge to Mystic River, so that very soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy...over with American camps, and cut up into forts and intrcnchments, and all the lands, fields, orchards laid common, horses and cattle feeding in the choicest... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...much work has " been done. The lines are extended almost " from Cambridge to Mystic River, so that very " soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy " to get between the works My quarters " are at the foot of the famous Prospect Hills, and " it is very diverting to walk among... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 588 pages
...how much work has been done. The lines are extended almost from Cambridge to Mystic River, so that very soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy...intrenchments, and all the lands, fields, orchards laid common, horses and cattle feeding in the choicest mowing land, whole fields of corn eaten down to the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pages
...observing chaplain already cited, gazed with wonder at the rapid effects soon produced by the labors of an army. " It is surprising," writes he, " how...intrenchments, and all the lands, fields, orchards, laid common, — horses and cattle feeding on the choicest mowing land, whole fields of corn eaten down... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - Boston (Mass.) - 1851 - 460 pages
...how much work has been done. The lines are extended almost from Cambridge to Mystic River, so that very soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy...intrenchments, and all the lands, fields, orchards, laid common, — horses and cattle feeding in the choicest mowing land, whole fields of corn eaten down... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...much work has been done. The lines are extended almost from Cambridge to the Mystic River ; so that very soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy...forts and intrenchments, and all the lands, fields, and orchards laid common — horses and cattle feeding in the choicest mowing land, whole fields of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...much work has been done. The lines are extended almost from Cambridge to the Mystic River ; so that very soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy...forts and intrenchments, and all the lands, fields, and orchards laid common — horses and cattle feeding in the choicest mowing land, whole fields of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...much work has been done. The lines are extended almost from Cambridge to the Mystic River ; so that very soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy...get between the works, except in one place, which i.supposed to be left purposely unfortified, to entice the enemy out of their fortresses. Who would... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
..." much work has been done. The lines are extended " almost from Cambridge to Mystic River, so that very " soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy to get between the works My quarters are at the foot of the famous Prospect Hills, and it is very diverting to walk ' among... | |
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