 The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part...  Works - Stran 114avtor: Samuel Johnson - 1811Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 strani
...thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very imail part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in teuts and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 strani
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy;...without remem,brance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and enterprize impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled,... | |
 | 1809 - 338 strani
...or the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our contest with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy....unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance of helpless mU »ery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 strani
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy...without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 strani
...Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, avery small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the...gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate bylong continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at Jast whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 strani
...with France and Sfiain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished jn tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale,...continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at last wnelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 strani
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands, that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy:...without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 strani
...s\yord. Qf the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy...without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 strani
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with I- ranee and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy...in tents, and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pile, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gaspiog and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 strani
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy...without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled,... | |
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