 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 էջ
...honor, 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...contests with France and Spain, a very small part erer felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction;... | |
 | 1859 - 598 էջ
...same idea is more graphically expressed by Johnson. " The life of a modern soldier is illrepresented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more...thousands that perished in our late contests with and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of ' an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and... | |
 | 1859 - 578 էջ
...century has remained in a great degree true in our own. ' The life of a modern soldier is ill-represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more...the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten tnousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 էջ
...honor, 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...has means of destruction more formidable than the cann«n nnd the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - 1861 - 216 էջ
...epidemics, especially cholera, not unfrequently commit the most frightful ravages. "War," says Johnson, "has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and tens of thousands that have perished, how small a proportion ever felt the stroke of an enemy !" Frederick... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - 1862 - 216 էջ
...epidemics, especially cholera, not unfrequently commit the most frightful ravages. "War," says Johnson, "has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and tens of thousands that have perished, how small a proportion ever felt the stroke of an enemy!" Frederick... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1863 - 778 էջ
...and have lost nothing of their truth and force. " The life of a British soldier," wrote Johnson, " is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means...than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and tens of thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever... | |
 | Frederick W. MARTIN - 1869 - 308 էջ
...struck me that for the moment there were greater fools than these Turks in Turkey. CHAPTER XIII. " The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by...ten thousands that perished in our late contests, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst... | |
 | Robert Armstrong - 1872 - 344 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 has means of destruction more fo/midable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thou sands and ten thousands that perished in our... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 էջ
...Those who write in this fashion are said to have adopted the Johnsonian style. THE MISERIES OF WAR. " The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by...and ten thousands that perished in our late contests witb France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in... | |
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The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. 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... 
