 | John Marshall - Generals - 1804 - 654 pages
...short every thing a prey to the enemy ; and when we endeavoured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had left upon it, it was with as little success as if we had attempted to have stopped the wild bears of the mountains, or the rivulets with our feet; for they would break by... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1804 - 648 pages
...short every thing a prey to the enemy ; and when we endeavoured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had left upon it, it was with as little success as if we had attempted to have stopped the wild bears of the mountains, or the rivulets with our feet; for they would break by... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 562 pages
...endeavoured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had 1 left GENERAL WASHINGTON. 35 left upon it, it was with as little success as if we had attempted CHAP. i. to have stopped the wild bears of the mountains, or the rivulets 1755. with our feet ; for... | |
 | 1805 - 618 pages
...short every thing a prey to the enemy ; and when we endeavoured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had left upon it, it was with as little success as if we had attempted to have stopped the wild bears of the mountains, or the rivulets with our feet; for they would break by... | |
 | John Burk - Slavery - 1805 - 490 pages
...the enemy ; and when we endeavouitd to rally tlnm in hopes of regaining thtf gi ound, and what thty had left upon it, it was with as little success as if we had attempted to have stopped the wild bears of the mountains or the rivulets with our feet, for they would break in... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...endeavoured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had left upon it, it \vas wtth as little success, as if we had attempted to stop...bears of the mountains, or the rivulets with our feet ; for they would break by in spite of every effort to prevent it." The assembly of Virginia was in... | |
 | 734 pages
...short, every thing, a prey to the enemy; and when we endeavoured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had left upon it, it was with aa little success as if we had attempted to have stopped the wild bears of the mountains, or the rivulets... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...short every thing, a prey to the enemy; and when we endea voured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had left upon it, it was with...bears of the mountains, or the rivulets with our feet ; for they would break by in spite of every effort to prevent it." The assembly of Virginia was in... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - Indians - 1819 - 590 pages
...short every thing a prey to the enemy; and when we endeavoured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had left upon it, it was with...little success as if we had attempted to stop the wild boars of the mountains, or the rivulets with our feet; for they would break by in spite of every effort... | |
 | 1832 - 564 pages
...short every thing, a prey to tha enemy: and when we endeavoured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had left upon it, it was with as little success as if we had attempted to have stopped the wild bears of the mountains, or the rivulets with our feet : for they would break... | |
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... we endeavored to rally them in hopes of regaining the ground and what we had left upon it, it was with as little success as if we had attempted to have stopped the wild bears of the mountains... 
