... 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 France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Σελίδα 59των Samuel Johnson - 1806Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 σελίδες
...France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid,...hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or flung into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome... | |
| Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 σελίδες
...putréfaction ; pale, torjpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning, unpitied among mon , made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into thé océan , without notice and without remembrance. By incommodions encampments and umvholesome stations,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 σελίδες
...France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid,...where courage is useless and enterprise impracticable, fleete are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. Thus is a people gradually exhausted,... | |
| William Lennox L. Fitzgerald De-Ros (23rd baron.) - 1851 - 594 σελίδες
...felt the stroke of an enemy. The rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefactions, pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless, gasping and...unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance of helpless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 σελίδες
...France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid,...hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or flung into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 442 σελίδες
...France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid,...long continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at hist whelmed in pits, or flung into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious... | |
| 1855 - 424 σελίδες
...thousands that perish, a very small part ever feel the stroke of an enemy. The rest languish in tents and -ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale,...torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning, unfitted among men, made obdurate by long-continuance of hopeless misery, and are at last whelmed in... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 σελίδες
...felt the stroke rf an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrcfactir.n; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and...unpitied among men, made obdurate by long; continuance of hrpeless misery ; and were at la^t whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, withcut notice and without... | |
| William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald-de-Ros De Ros (23d baron) - 1857 - 458 σελίδες
...felt the stroke of an enemy. The rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefactions, pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless, gasping and...unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance of helpless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without... | |
| 1859 - 650 σελίδες
...France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid,...whelmed in pits or heaved into the ocean, without notice or remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless and... | |
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