 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 էջ
...small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless...and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. Thus... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 էջ
...small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless...and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. Thus... | |
 | International peace society - 232 էջ
...very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless;...and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and enterprise is impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies slnggishly melted away.... | |
 | 1821 - 388 էջ
...amidst damps and! putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitiea among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless...without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious incampmente and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 542 էջ
...small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless...and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. Thus... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 էջ
...amidst damp and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless : gasping and groaning, nnpitied among men. made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless...and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. Thus... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 540 էջ
...and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning, unpitiedamx>ngmen, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery...and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. Thus... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 554 էջ
...very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction — pale, torpid, spiritless, and...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 էջ
...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,...incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, by want of food, and by exposure to the inclemency of the severest weather, where courage is useless,... | |
 | 1831 - 746 էջ
...; 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... | |
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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 ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents... 
