 | 1820 - 544 pages
...drunkard, was the object of scorn; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable,...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar.' " Vol. III. pp. 658 — 66O. * Archdeacon Coxe has conferred an obligation on his country, by undertaking... | |
 | William Coxe - 1819 - 734 pages
...drunkard, was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable,...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar."* A leading feature in the character of the duke of Marlborough, was, his generous magnanimity. Sincere... | |
 | William Coxe - Great Britain - 1820 - 486 pages
...drunkard, was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable,...clean, and had an .air and spirit above the vulgar." * A leading feature in the character of the duke of 'Marlborough, was his generous magnanimity. Sincere... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 628 pages
...soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, civil, sensible and clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar.' But it is only from the present Memoirs that a full knowledge of this admirable man can be obtained.... | |
 | Biography - 1834 - 454 pages
...drunkard was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable,...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar." The Duchess of Marlborough collected ample materials for her husband's life, and committed the task... | |
 | 1836 - 428 pages
...many of them the refuse and the dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, civil, sensible, and clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar." The plan of this work necessarily precludes us from offering any general review of the character of... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 530 pages
...drunkard was the object of scorn; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable,...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar." The Duchess of Marlborough collected ample materials for her husband's life, and committed the task... | |
 | Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...drunkard was the object of scorn; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable,...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar." The Duchess of Marlborough collected ample materials for her husband's life, and committed the task... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Great Britain - 1848 - 456 pages
...drunkard was the object of scorn ; and even the soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable,...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar." In political life, during his career after the Revolution, he was consistent and firm ; faithful to... | |
 | William Coxe - Great Britain - 1848 - 504 pages
...drunkard was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable,...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar."* A leading feature in the character of the Duke of Marlborough was his generous magnanimity. Sincere... | |
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Cursing and swearing were seldom heard among the officers ; a sot and a drunkard, was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable, civil, sensible,... 
