 | John Marshall - Generals - 1805 - 666 pages
...mortification of seeing V0L. iv. qq CHAP. VL inviting opportunities to ruin them, passim17so. improved for want of a force which the country was completely able to afford : to see the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered with impunity... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...greatest part of the war inferiour to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities...force which the country was completely able to afford ; to see the country ravaged, oiir towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered \\ith impunity... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...greatest part of the war inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities...for want of a force which the country was completely able-to afford ; to see the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification o/ seeing inviting opportunities to ruin them pass unimproved,...force which the country was completely able to afford ; to see the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered with impunity... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 238 pages
...greatest part of the war inferiour to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities...force which the country was completely able to afford ; to see the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered with impunity... | |
 | 1832 - 564 pages
...greatest part of the war, inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities...force which the country was completely able to afford; to see the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered, with impunity... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...greatest part of the war inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities...abused, murdered with impunity from the same cause. Nor have the ill effects been confined to the military line. A great part of the embarrassments in... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 590 pages
...greatest part of the war inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities...abused, murdered with impunity from the same cause. Nor have the ill effects been confined to the military line. A great part of the embarrassments in... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 534 pages
...greatest part of the war, inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities...force which the country was completely able to afford ; to see the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered, with impunity... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 586 pages
...greatest part of the war inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities...abused, murdered with impunity from the same cause. Nor have the ill effects been confined to the military line. A great part of the embarrassments in... | |
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... security depending on a good countenance and a want of enterprise in the enemy; we should not have been the greatest part of the war inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing... 
