 | 1845 - 620 էջ
...and groaning unpitied among men rendered obstinate by long continuance of hopeless misery; and are at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, whole fleets are silently dispeopled,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 546 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 548 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 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 - 1846 - 714 էջ
...among men, made obdurate y long continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in nits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without...remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome sla'ions, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 744 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. Thus, by incommodious encampments... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 742 էջ
...damps and putrefaction, — pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless, — gasping and groaning, uupitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery, — and were at last whelmed into pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice, without remembrance. Thus, by incommodious encampments... | |
 | George Cone Beckwith - 1847 - 264 էջ
...gasping and groaning unpitied among men rendered obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery, and are at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance." Glance, also, at their food, often provided by avaricious, unprincipled contractors... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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...hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or flung into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 էջ
...putréfaction ; pale, torjpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning, unpitied among mon , made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into thé océan , without notice and without remembrance. By incommodions encampments and umvholesome stations,... | |
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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... 
