Excerpt from In Buff and Blue: Being Certain Portions From the Diary of Richard Hilton, Gentleman, of Haslet's Regiment of Delaware Foot-in-Our-Ever Glorious War of Independence They say too that the mountaineers are a hardier, sterner set than those we breed by the water. Of this I cannot speak, yet we of the Delaware line, in the old days from '76 to '82, did not show our selves as weak as water. I have just been reading an old play in which occur the words: Who fails in his life's work, let him write success, for man's ...
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Excerpt from In Buff and Blue: Being Certain Portions From the Diary of Richard Hilton, Gentleman, of Haslet's Regiment of Delaware Foot-in-Our-Ever Glorious War of Independence They say too that the mountaineers are a hardier, sterner set than those we breed by the water. Of this I cannot speak, yet we of the Delaware line, in the old days from '76 to '82, did not show our selves as weak as water. I have just been reading an old play in which occur the words: Who fails in his life's work, let him write success, for man's judgment is not God's judgment. So may our failures be His suc cesses; and I am tempted to put down a few failures and a few successes I have met with in some sixty years of life, as long a sixty years of stormy life as ever a man was cursed with. But now, as the sailors say, I have boarded my main tack and trimmed my sheets, but notwithstanding all, I am slowly drifting on a lee-shore from which I cannot beat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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