 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 էջ
...gasping and groaning unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; 160 and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the...and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. Thus... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 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;...made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; 160 and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance.... | |
 | Martin Myrone - 2005 - 408 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.1"... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2005 - 237 էջ
...rest languished in twits and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless, arid helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men...and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. '... | |
 | 1890 - 340 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... | |
 | 2007 - 180 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 of... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1958 - 192 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,...made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery. . . . The wars of civilised nations make very slow changes in the system of empire. The publick perceives... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1823 - 432 էջ
...ships, in tents or hospitals, amidst damps and putrefactions ; pale, torpid, spiritless and hopeless. gasping and groaning, unpitied among men made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery, and at lust are buried in pits, or heaved into since thnt time, been more and more diffused • ' ,the... | |
 | 1830 - 606 էջ
...putrefaction ; pale, spiritless, torpid, helpless, gasping and groaning, unpitied among men rendered obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; and were at last whelmed into pits or heaved into the ocean, without pity and without remembrance," &c. &c. &o. Who does not... | |
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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... 
