In Buff and Blue (Classic Reprint): Being Certain Portions From the Diary of Richard Hilton, Gentleman, of Haslet's Regiment of Delaware ... War of Independence (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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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.

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