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 - Seite 114von Samuel Johnson - 1811Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 554 Seiten
...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;...continuance of hopeless misery, and were at last whelmed into pits or heaved into the ocean without notice, without remembrance." ..." But at the conclusion... | |
| 1831 - 722 Seiten
...gasping and groaning, unp'itied 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 the inclemency of the severest weather, where... | |
| 1831 - 746 Seiten
...; the rest languish in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction, victims of hunger and cold, pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gasping and...unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of helpless misery, and are at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without... | |
| Thomas Thrush - 1833 - 306 Seiten
...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....rest languished in tents and ships amidst damps and putrefactions, gasping and groaning, unpitied by men made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 Seiten
...eword. 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 - 1837 - 752 Seiten
...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 - 1838 - 716 Seiten
...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...; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into tha ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 Seiten
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that, perished in our late contests with France and Spain, to think that cheerful anil without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 Seiten
...aword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests wilh France and Spain, a very .small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst dumps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless, und helpless; gasping and mauling, unpitied among... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...sword. 0) the thousand« and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, ". unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled,... | |
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