Fremont, in the palatial Brandt Mansion, for which the Government was paying the very unusual rent of $6,000 per year, was maintaining a vice regal court as Difficultly accessible as that of any crowned head of Europe.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
An other remedie there is, to make a cave againste it, when thou shouldeste bee aware where he muineth, the whiche waie easely hindereth hym, but Difficultly it is foreseen, beyng besieged of a craftie enemie.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
In the words of Dr. Murdock, Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland, "the Irish had not the liberty of the birds of the air to build or repair their nests; they had behind them the forest or the rocky soil, which they were not allowed, without license Difficultly obtained, to reclaim and till.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud