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 - Página 114por Samuel Johnson - 1811Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...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...whelmed in pits or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and... | |
| 1859 - 578 páginas
...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...whelmed in pits or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and... | |
| 1859 - 650 páginas
...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...whelmed in pits or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 páginas
...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...whelmed in pits or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 páginas
...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...made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; anil were at last whelmed in pits or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious... | |
| 1859 - 598 páginas
...and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of ' an enemy...groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continu' ance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits or ' heaved into the ocean, without... | |
| Andrew Wynter - 1860 - 554 páginas
...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...torpid, spiritless and helpless ; gasping and groaning un pi tied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...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,... | |
| Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1863 - 778 páginas
...sword. Of the thousands and tens of thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy. The rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damp and putrefactions, pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning, unpitied among... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...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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