 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 630 strani
...the night, determining to wait for a fair day. The rest of us, who, like the King of Spain with his twenty thousand men, " marched up the hill and then — marched down again," embarked at 4 o'clock, and scudded back before the wind to Naples, happy to escape from scenes of intoxication,... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1830 - 436 strani
...institutions ? CHAPTER XXII. CHARLES VIII. SURNAMED THE AFFABLE AND COURTEOUS. The king of France, with twenty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then marched down again. OLD PROVERB. AD 1. CHARLES had reached his fourteenth year, the 1483. legal.age of majority, at the... | |
 | Benjamin Webster - 1837 - 380 strani
...heroic. — Yes, "to the mountains" today, to come hack to this den to-morrow, like " the King of France, with twenty thousand men, marched up the hill, and then marched down again. No— now, or never — act like a man, or I'll chusscy the affair. With such a bribe as you can oder,... | |
 | 726 strani
...le continued). YACHTING. ,, FINISH OF THE SEASON. BY A MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN. ' The King of France, with twenty thousand men, Marched up the hill — and then — marched down again." " Grim-visaged war hath smoothed" — rough Chobham'a wilds with boots of patent polish, hoof of "... | |
 | 1840 - 752 strani
...priests to bear the aggression. Well, no doubt this is as wise as it is pious. ' The King of France, with twenty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.' Though our duty to the author and to the reader almost requires us to leave this subject, so awfully... | |
 | 1840 - 906 strani
...priests to bear the aggression. Well, no doubt this is as wise as it is pious. ' The King of France, with twenty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.' Though our duty to the author and to the reader almost requires us to leave this subject, so awfully... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Peake - 1841 - 442 strani
...From Raby Castle, we did not plod our way to London upon the principles of sameness adopted by that King of France who, with twenty thousand men, ' Marched up the hill, and then marched down again ;' for, in many instances, we varied both from the regular route, and the devious track we had already... | |
 | John Todd - 1845 - 142 strani
...the enemy, more than three to one. They were in earnest ; unlike the sight when "The king of France with twenty thousand men Marched up the hill and then marched down again." They knew that they must fight and conquor, or die. Col. Z. Butler commanded one wing of the little... | |
 | John Todd - 1845 - 296 strani
...the enemy, more than three to one. They were in earnest ; unlike the sight when " The king of France with twenty thousand men Marched up the hill and then marched down again." They knew that they must fight and conquor, or die. Col. Z. Butler commanded one wing of the little... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1847 - 492 strani
...one of that description of warriors to whom the trite satire could apply : — " The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again." He had however those about him who gathered up the " sweepings" of his mind, and who expected him to be... | |
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The King of France, with twenty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then marched down again. 
