| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 էջ
...resi/rn their lives amidst the joyt of conquest, and, filled viln England's glory, smile in death. The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by...of destruction more formidable than the cannon and Ihe tword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our hue contests with France and Spain,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 744 էջ
...following heartrending description of the evils to be encountered by our brave defenders in arms: " The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by...and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands who perished in our late contests with France and Spain a very small part ever felt the stroke of an... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 էջ
...resign their lives amidst the joys of conquest, and, filled with their country's glory, smile in death ! The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by...'the thousands and ten thousands that perished in the late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest... | |
| Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 էջ
...amidst thé joys of conquest, and, filled with England's glory, smile in death ! The life of a modem soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than thé cannon and thesword. Ofthe thousands and ten thousands that perished in our latc contests with... | |
| William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald De Ros (23d baron) - 1851 - 594 էջ
...expressed in a more copious and forcible manner. " The life of a modern soldier," says Johnson, truly, " is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon or the c 2 sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our contest with France and Spain,... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 էջ
...resign their lives amidst the joys of conquest, and, filled with their country's glory, smile in death ! The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by...Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in the late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest... | |
| 1855 - 424 էջ
...million ; in all the wars consequent upon the French Revolution, no less than 9,000,000 ! and beauty, "has means of destruction more formidable than the...the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perish, a very small part ever feel the stroke of an enemy. The rest languish in tents and -ships,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 էջ
...resign their lives amidst the joys of conquest, and, filled with England's glory, smile in death ! The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War lias means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands... | |
| William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald-de-Ros De Ros (23d baron) - 1857 - 458 էջ
...expressed in a more copious and forcible manner by Dr. Johnson. " The life of a modern soldier," he says, " is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon or the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our contest with France and Spain,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 էջ
...resign their lives amidst the joys of conquest, and, filled with England's glory, smile in drnth ! The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has menns of destruction more formidable than the canncn and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands... | |
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