 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, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 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 enterprise impracticable, fleets are... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1892 - 190 strani
...languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction, gasping and groaning, unpitied amongst men made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless...misery; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved *Lord Clarendon — who, however, excepts those wars which are likely " to introduce as much benefit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 248 strani
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with Prance 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 254 strani
...Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished, in our late contests with Prance and Spain, avery small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the...without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encamp•inents and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and enterprise impracticable, fleets... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1897 - 266 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,... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 strani
...sword. Of the tlwusands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy...in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; 15 pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless • gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 strani
...sword. Of the thousands and the 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,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1915 - 350 strani
...ECONOMY OF WAR 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,... | |
 | 1915 - 700 strani
...gasping and groanifig, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of helpless misery, and are at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean,...without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, by want of food, and by exposure to all the inclemency of the severest weather,... | |
 | John Walter Gregory - 1925 - 288 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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