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... Never shall I forget the occasion , when we were ordered to proceed to the Forest , for the display of a grand sham fight between us and the Ratcliff Volunteers ! The ground selected for the event , was where Fairlop Fair is held , and ...
... Never shall I forget the occasion , when we were ordered to proceed to the Forest , for the display of a grand sham fight between us and the Ratcliff Volunteers ! The ground selected for the event , was where Fairlop Fair is held , and ...
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... never to return ? how many of them were to be disabled by severe wounds ? and the question would arise- Should I be among the first ? or second ? or should I return in safety ? The shots fired at us , on passing the Belt , had created ...
... never to return ? how many of them were to be disabled by severe wounds ? and the question would arise- Should I be among the first ? or second ? or should I return in safety ? The shots fired at us , on passing the Belt , had created ...
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... not feel any more an inclination for sleep that night . I thanked God for my deliverance ; and vowed never again to indulge in a nap while on sentry . As the batteries were assuming a state of efficiency ; MILITARY SERVICE . 37.
... not feel any more an inclination for sleep that night . I thanked God for my deliverance ; and vowed never again to indulge in a nap while on sentry . As the batteries were assuming a state of efficiency ; MILITARY SERVICE . 37.
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... never could learn . We returned by the same road through Germany , and were exposed to the same privations until we had passed Gustrow , when , as on our advance , we subsisted on the inhabitants ; instead of going back to Stralsund ...
... never could learn . We returned by the same road through Germany , and were exposed to the same privations until we had passed Gustrow , when , as on our advance , we subsisted on the inhabitants ; instead of going back to Stralsund ...
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... never was a period when the supplies to the troops cost such enormous sums to the nation ; and there certainly never was a war in which the army was so destitute of every thing . From the flannel waistcoats supplied by the patriotic ...
... never was a period when the supplies to the troops cost such enormous sums to the nation ; and there certainly never was a war in which the army was so destitute of every thing . From the flannel waistcoats supplied by the patriotic ...
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Page 34 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 163 - Louis, by the grace of God King of France and Navarre, to our dear and well-beloved Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, greeting.
Page 267 - His person partook the character of his mind — if the one never yielded in the cabinet, the other never bent in the field. Nature had no obstacles that he did not surmount ; space no opposition...
Page 265 - Subsidiary to this there was no creed that he did not profess ; there was no opinion that he did not promulgate. In the hope of a dynasty, he upheld the Crescent; for the sake of a divorce, he bowed before the Cross; the orphan of St.
Page 269 - Such a medley of contradictions, and, at the same time, such an individual consistency, were never united in the same character. A royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic...
Page 264 - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary...
Page 268 - Corsica waving his imperial flag over her most ancient capitals. All the visions of antiquity became common places in his contemplation; kings were his people — nations were his outposts; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chessboard!
Page 244 - The lancer couch'd his ruthless spear, And hurrying as to havoc near, The cohorts' eagles flew. In one dark torrent, broad and strong, The advancing onset...
Page 270 - Kings may learn from him that their safest study, as well as their noblest, is the interest of the people ; the people are taught by him that there is no despotism so stupendous against which they have not a resource; and to those who would rise upon the ruins of both, he is a living lesson that if ambition can raise them from the lowest station, it can also prostrate them from the highest.
Page 264 - A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character — the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell.