 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
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 strani
...putréfaction ; pale, torjpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning, unpitied among mon , made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into thé océan , without notice and without remembrance. By incommodions encampments and umvholesome stations,... | |
 | William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald De Ros (23d baron) - 1851 - 594 strani
...thousands that perished in our contest with France and Spain, terminated by the conquest of Gibraltar, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy....rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefactions, pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless, gasping and groaning unpitied, among men made... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 strani
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in the late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy...hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or flung into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 442 strani
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in the late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy...long continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at hist whelmed in pits, or flung into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious... | |
 | 1855 - 424 strani
...and ten thousands that perish, a very small part ever feel the stroke of an enemy. The rest languish in tents and -ships, amidst damps and putrefaction...torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning, unfitted among men, made obdurate by long-continuance of hopeless misery, and are at last whelmed in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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,... | |
 | William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald-de-Ros De Ros (23d baron) - 1857 - 458 strani
...thousands that perished in our contest with France and Spain, terminated by the conquest of Gibraltar, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy....rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefactions, pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless, gasping and groaning unpitied, among men made... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 strani
...that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke rf an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrcfactir.n; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 strani
...and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part erer felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in...without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled,... | |
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