 | John Blackadder - Great Britain - 1824 - 590 pages
...diversions we knew not, for it was no time for mirth ; neither can I say that I ever saw him smile. Our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak ; his countenance looked extremely heavy, and he cared not to come abroad among the soldiers, to see us handle our arms or do our exercise. I... | |
 | Andrew Crichton, John Blackader - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1824 - 594 pages
...diversions we knew not, for it was no time for mirth ; neither can I say that I ever saw him smile. Our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak ; his countenance looked extremely heavy, and he cared not to come abroad among the soldiers, to see us handle our arms or do our exercise. I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1829 - 344 pages
...by his presence ; and, if he was disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in him. We saw nothing in him that looked like spirit. He never appeared...found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and, had he sent us but five thousand men of good troops, and never himself come... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 344 pages
...by his presence; and, if he was disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in him. We saw nothing in him that looked like spirit. He never appeared...arms or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances be found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and, had he sent us but five... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1829 - 350 pages
...by his presence ; and, if he was disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in him. We saw nothing in him that looked like spirit. He never appeared...amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms ' * our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1836 - 672 pages
...his presence, and if he was " disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in " him. We saw nothing in him that looked like " spirit. He never appeared...despise " him ; some asked if he could speak. His coun" tenance looked extremely heavy. He cared not " to come abroad amongst us soldiers, or to see... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1836 - 660 pages
...his presence, and if he was " disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in " him. We saw nothing in him that looked like " spirit. He never appeared...despise " him ; some asked if he could speak. His coun" tenance looked extremely heavy. He cared not " to come abroad amongst us soldiers, or to see... | |
 | James Browne - Clans - 1838 - 622 pages
...by his presence ; and if he was disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in him. We saw nothing in him that looked like spirit. He never appeared...found us in dejected him. I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and had he sent us but five thousand men of good troops, and never himself come... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1845 - 434 pages
...by his presence ; and if he was disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in him. We saw nothing in him that looked like spirit. He never appeared...looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad among us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms to do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he... | |
 | James Maidment - Scotland - 1845 - 548 pages
...more so in him. We saw nothing in him that look'd like spirit ; he never appear'd with chearfulness and vigour to animate us. Our men began to despise him; some ask'd if he could speak. His countenance look'd extreamly heavy ; he car'd not to come abroad among... | |
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I must not conceal, that when we saw the man whom they called our King, we found ourselves not at all animated by his presence, and if he was disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in him. We saw nothing in him that looked like spirit. He never appeared... 
