 | Army - 1757 - 310 trang
...Madnefi co pcrfift in fo unequal a Conflict. Both claimed the V iflc'ry. Ds Wit faid, " If the Englift> were beat, their Defeat did them more Honour than all their 'former Victories ; no Fleet but theirs could, after the firft Day's Fight, have -been brought to engage •gain. Englijh... | |
 | Frederic Hervey - 1779 - 506 trang
...was worfted. The penfioner DC Witt acknowledged, ledged, upon this occafion, " that if the Englifh were beat, their defeat did them more honour than all their former victories; the Dutch fleet could never have been brought to engage after fuch 3 fight as was on the firft day,... | |
 | John Campbell - 1785 - 582 trang
...and of too great a fpirit to conceal the truth, faid roundly upon this occafion, " If the Englifh <« were beat, their defeat did them more honour than all their " former victories ; their own fleet could never have been " brought on after the firft day's fight, and he believed none... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 trang
...England, bore the following remarkable testimony to the gallantry of her seamen : " If the English were beat, their defeat did them more honour than all their former victories. No fleet but theirs could, after the first day's fight, have been brought to engage again. English... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 trang
...of England, bore the following remarkable testimony to the gallantry of her seamen: " If the English were beat, their defeat did them more honour than all their former victories. No fleet but theirs could, after the first day's fight, have been brought to engage again. English... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 604 trang
...the Dutch seem to hare had rather the advantage ; but the following testimony of the Grand-Penaonarr De Witte nobly speaks for itself. " If the English,"...did them more honour than all their former victories ; oar own fleet could nc-ver have been brought [again into action] after tlie first day's fight, if... | |
 | James Grant - 1873 - 594 trang
...Pensionary of Holland, John de Witt, remarked to Sir William Temple— "If the English were beaten, their defeat did them more honour than all their former...victories. Our own fleet could never have been brought on after the first day's fight, and I believe that none but theirs could ; and all the Dutch had discovered... | |
 | 1879 - 496 trang
...Pensionary of Holland, John de Witt, remarked to Sir William Temple : " If the English were beaten, their defeat did them more honour than all their former...victories. Our own fleet could never have been brought on after tho first day's fight, and I believe that none but theirs could ; and all the Dutch had discovered... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 480 trang
...England, bore the following remarkable testimony to the gallantry of her seamen : " If the English were beat, their defeat did them more honour than all their former victories. No fleet but theirs could, after the first day's fight, have been brought to engage again. Englishmen... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 478 trang
...England, bore the following remarkable testimony to the gallantry of her seamen : " If the English were beat, their defeat did them more honour than all their former victories. No fleet but theirs could, after the first day's fight, have been brought to engage again. Englishmen... | |
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De Witt himself, the sworn foe of England, bore the following remarkable testimony to the gallantry of her seamen: " If the English were beat, their defeat did them more honour than all their former victories. No fleet but theirs could, after the first... 
