 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1836 - 660 pages
...amongst us soldiers, or to see us " handle our arms or do our exercise. Some said " the circumstances he found us in dejected him ; " I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and, " had he sent us but 5000 men of good troops, " and never himself come amongst us, we had " done other things than we have... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1836 - 672 pages
...amongst us soldiers, or to see us " handle our arms or do our exercise. Some said " the circumstances he found us in dejected him; " I am sure the figure he made dejected us; and, " had he sent us but 5000 men of good troops, " and never himself come amongst us, we had " done other things than we have... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1845 - 434 pages
...among us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms to do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found us in dejected him. I am sure the figure he...thousand men of good troops, and never himself come, we had done other things than we have done. At the approach of that crisis when he was to defend his... | |
 | James Maidment - Scotland - 1845 - 548 pages
...or to see us handle our arms or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found us in dejecfd him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us, and had he sent us but 5000 men of good troops, and never come among us, we had done other things than we have now done. It... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - England - 1846 - 344 pages
...amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms or do our exercise. Some said, the circumstances he found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and had he sent us but 5000 men of good troops, and never himself come amongst us, we had done other things than we have now."... | |
 | John Marshall Deane - History - 1846 - 94 pages
...among us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms, or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found us in dejected him. I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and had he * The Spottiswode Miscellany, already quoted, contains a full and amusing account of this retreat.... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 580 pages
...cheerfulness and vigour to animate us ; our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and had he sent us 5000 men of good troops, and never himself come, we had done other things than we have done." — Spottiswoode... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 516 pages
...amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us."f There was, in fact, a double disappointment — a universal dejection. Instead of 16,000 men... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1848 - 562 pages
...amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms, or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found us in dejected him: I am sure the figure he made dejected us." This was a bad omen: where mutual confidence is wanting between a leader and his troops, there can... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1848 - 902 pages
...abroad among us soldiers, or to we us handle oor arms or do our exercise. Some MI! the circumstances he, found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected ив." ' There w«a, in fact, h double disappointment— a universal dejection, instead of the 16,000... | |
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Some said the circumstances he found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us; and, had he sent us but 5000 men of good troops, and never himself come amongst us, we had done other things than we have now done... 
