 | George Washington - 1834 - 574 strani
...officer, and man of sense. It is what I have ardently wished words, — ' / heard the bullets whittle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the...he had been used to hear many.' However, this brave hraggart learned to blush for his rhodomontade, and, desiring to serve General Braddock as aid-de-camp,... | |
 | 1840 - 566 strani
...which Major Washington despatched on his preceding little victory, he concluded with these words : " I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is...something charming in the sound." On hearing of this letter, the king said sensibly, " He would not have said so, if he had used to hear many." However,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 strani
...and in which young Major Washington concluded a narrative of his first skirmish by these words : " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." On hearing this, the King said : " He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many." Washington was of the... | |
 | François Guizot - 1840 - 262 strani
...and in which young Major Washington concluded a narrative of his first skirmish by these words : " I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me there is something charming in the sound." On hearing this the king said, " He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many." Washington was of the... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1840 - 216 strani
...in which Washington, then a young major, ended the narrative of his first battle with the words, " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound ; " the King * Washington's Writings, Vol. II. p. 29. observed, " He would not say so, if he had been... | |
 | Thomas Keppel (hon.) - 1842 - 640 strani
...Major Washington dispatched on his preceding little victory, he concluded with these words : — ' 1 heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there...something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this letter, the King said sensibly, ' He would not say so if he had been used to hear many.' However, this... | |
 | Thomas Robert Keppel - 1842 - 482 strani
...Major Washington dispatched on his preceding little victory, he concluded with these words : — ' I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in ihr sound.' On hearing of this letter, the King said sensibly, ' He would not say so if he had been... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 strani
...Washington despatched on his preceding little victory," says Walpole, " he concluded with these words, 'I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is...say so if he had been used to hear many.' However,'' adds AValpole, "this brave braggart learned to blush for his rhodomontade." A gentleman once asked... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 strani
...and indeed brought out of it, may be inferred from his own language. In a letter home, said he, ' I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' .... But it was at Braddock's defeat that he exhibited those striking qualities which form the great... | |
 | 1847 - 722 strani
...and indeed brought out of it, may be inferred from his own language. In a letter home, said he, ' I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' .... But it was at Braddock's defeat that he exhibited those striking qualities which form the great... | |
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I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound. 
