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" THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. "
An American Bible - Page 83
edited by - 1918 - 372 pages
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american prose

george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...we need fear no external enemy. [From Common Sense. Writings, vol. i, pp. 103-106.] THE CRISIS These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier...patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 12

1898 - 1292 pages
...try men's souls," and the next day Trenton was won. s Paine had written and the soldiers had read: "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will...this crisis shrink from the service of his country. * * * * * "Tyranny is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation, what we obtain too cheap,...
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The American Revolution, 1763-1783: Being the Chapters and Passages Relating ...

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1898 - 556 pages
...countrymen by publishing the first number of his " Crisis." It began with the famous words : " These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country ; but he that stands it now deserves the love and...
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The American Revolution, Part 2, Volume 2

George Otto Trevelyan - 1904 - 366 pages
...read; and it would have borne the test of reading aloud even before a more exacting audience. " These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier...now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. " 1 Such were the first words of that thrilling exhortation ; and what followed was of a piece with...
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Mistakes of Ingersoll and His Answers Complete

James Baird McClure - 1899 - 520 pages
...a pillar of fire by night, leading the way to freedom, honor, and glory. He shouted to them "These are the times that try men's souls." The summer soldier...service of his country ; but he that stands it now de ' serves the love and thanks of man and woman. To those who wished to put the war off to some future...
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Thomas Paine

Ellery Sedgwick - 1899 - 190 pages
...words : — ... "These are the times which try men's \ souls. The summer soldier and the sun- \ shine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service...country ; but he that stands it now deserves the love I and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered ; yet we have this consolation...
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A Brief Topical Survey of United States History

Oliver Perry Cornman - 1901 - 280 pages
...troops, and which did much to inspire and encourage them, these stirring words are found : •" These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier...now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." 283. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). —Thomas Jefferson deserves a large place in the history of American...
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International Library of Masterpieces, Literature, Art and Rare ..., Volume 23

Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 428 pages
...AMERICAN CONDITION AT THE CLOSE OF 1776. (From " The Crisis.") THESE are the times that try men's sonls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in...the service of his country : but he that stands it noir deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet...
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George Washington

Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pages
...soldiers. The opening sentences read: — " These are the times that try men's souls. The summer patriot and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country ; but he that stands it noiv, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny,...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 86

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1902 - 500 pages
...why he was so effective when the nervous energy of his style enforced the sweep of his dogma. " These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier...now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." Chatham himself could not have put it with more fire and force. Or again : " It is properly from the...
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