 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 344 trang
...vigour to animate us. Our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. His countenance looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad...figure he made dejected us ; and, had he sent us but five thousand men of good troops, and never himself come among us, we had done other things than we... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 344 trang
...vigour to animate us. Our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. His countenance looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad...arms or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances be found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and, had he sent us but five... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 350 trang
...vigour to animate us. Our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. His countenance looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad...amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms ' * our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - 622 trang
...vigour to animate us. Our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. His countenance looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad...figure he made dejected us ; and had he sent us but five thousand men of good troops, and never himself come among us, we had done other things than we... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 trang
...amongst us soldiers, or to " see us handle our arms or do our exercise. Some said the cir" cumstances he found us in dejected him; I am sure the figure...dejected us; and, had he sent us but 5000 men of good (1) SnvcliiiRi's. MiMiioiris Secrets, vol. ip :ioi. (3) Bolinghroke to James, Nov. 2. 1715. Appen(2)... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - 1845 - 434 trang
...looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad among us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms to do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found...figure he made dejected us ; and had he sent us but five thousand men of good troops, and never himself come, we had done other things than we have done.... | |
 | James Maidment - 1845 - 548 trang
...ask'd if he could speak. His countenance look'd extreamly heavy ; he car'd not to come abroad among us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms or do our...exercise. Some said the circumstances he found us in dejecfd him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us, and had he sent us but 5000 men of good troops,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 516 trang
...vigour to animate us : our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. His countenance looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad...dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us."f There was, in fact, a double disappointment — a universal dejection. Instead of 16,000 men... | |
 | John Marshall Deane - 1846 - 94 trang
...asked if he could speak. His countenance looked extremely heavy : he cared not to come abroad among us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms, or do our...am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and had he * The Spottiswode Miscellany, already quoted, contains a full and amusing account of this retreat.... | |
 | 1846 - 580 trang
...cheerfulness and vigour to animate us ; our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and had he sent us 5000 men of good troops, and never himself come, we had done other things than we have done." — Spottiswoode... | |
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... if he was disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in him. We saw nothing in him that looked like spirit. He never appeared with cheerfulness and vigour to animate us. Our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. His countenance... 
