 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863
...weakness and loss of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in tht service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting...other person ; but it is some consolation to those who tendrrly loved him, that as his life was honourable, so was hu death glorious. His memory will be recorded... | |
 | William Anderson - 1867
...after the action was over, when he fainted throngh weakness and loss of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his conntry, I might be excnsed for lamenting him more than any other person ; bnt it is some consolation... | |
 | William Marshall - 1880 - 444 strani
...after the action was over, when he fainted through weakness and loss of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the...lamenting him more than any other person ; but it U some consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that, as his life was honourable, so his death... | |
 | English history - 1881
...most justly lamented.* The eulogy of his successor in command thus concludes : " Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might l>e excused for lamenting him more than any other person ; but it is some consolation to those who... | |
 | James Grant - 1880
...the Castle of St. Elmo. Thus fell Abercrombie, a man " whose memory" says the Gazette of the day, " will be recorded in the annals of his country, will be sacred to every British soldier, and be embalmed in the memory of a grateful posterity." His widow was created Baroness Abercrombie, of... | |
 | Lloyd Charles Sanders - 1887 - 1077 strani
...echoed the feelings of the army in the order of the day in which he said, " Were it permitted to J soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might bo excused for lamenting him more than any other person : but it is some consolation to those who tenderly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1802
...; but it is fome conlolatipn to thofe who tenderly loved him, that, as his life was honourable, fo was his death glorious. His memory will be recorded in the annals ol his country, will be facred to every Britiih foldier, and embalmed in the recolleflion of a «rratefiil... | |
 | 1801
...perlón ; but it is fome confolation to thofe who tenderly loved him, that as his life was honourable, fo was his death glorious. His memory will be recorded in the annals of his country — will be facred to every Britifh ibldier, and embalmed in the recolleelion of a graleful pofterity. It is impoflible... | |
 | 1801
...; but it is lonie cor.tolation to thofe who tenderly loved him, that as his life was Honourable, fo was his death Glorious. — His memory will be recorded in the annals of his country — will be facred to every Britifh Soldier, and tmbalmed hi the recollection of a grateful pofrerity. It is impoffible... | |
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... and perspicuity, which had ever marked his character, till long after the action was over, when he fainted through weakness and loss of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might... 
