...nevertheless able to apply a word of comfort. "Take courage, comrades," he would answer, "If ihings go ill to-day, they may grow better to-morrow." He...camp, had gained him the respect and confidence of tire whole army to such a degree, that with one common accord, as we have just seen, the soldiers had...

...from his horse, and converse with his veteran grenadiers : he has dispelled the cloud that hung on their brows, and often rendered them insensible to the torments of hunger by regaling them frequently with hope. This great popularity, accompanied with a frank benevolence of disposition which...