 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 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...whelmed in pits or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 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...made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; anil were at last whelmed in pits or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious... | |
 | 1859 - 598 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...groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continu' ance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits or ' heaved into the ocean, without... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1860 - 554 էջ
...amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless ; gasping and groaning un pi tied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless...whelmed in pits or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. PARALLEL... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1863 - 778 էջ
...felt the stroke of an enemy. The rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damp and putrefactions, pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and...unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of helpless misery, and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean without notice, and without... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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 impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. Thus... | |
 | Frederick W. MARTIN - 1869 - 308 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...continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed into pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance." DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. As... | |
 | Robert Armstrong - 1872 - 344 էջ
...the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefactions — pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gasping and...and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. This... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 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." EDMUND... | |
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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... 
