The Military Mentor: Being a Series of Letters Recently Written by a General Officer to His Son on His Entering the Army, Comprising a Course of Elegent Instruction Calculated to Unite the Characters and Accomplishments of the Gentleman and Soldier, 1. kötetR. Phillips, 1809 |
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53. oldal
... sent proposals to the senate for that purpose ; but finding they were rejected with scorn , he advanced towards Rome in a confident persuasion that he should easily reduce it . When he came to the bridge , and saw the Romans drawn up in ...
... sent proposals to the senate for that purpose ; but finding they were rejected with scorn , he advanced towards Rome in a confident persuasion that he should easily reduce it . When he came to the bridge , and saw the Romans drawn up in ...
64. oldal
... sent them away with applause . COUNT SAXE , the hero whom France yet honours with its regret , happened , in the year 1705 , to be at the city of Lemburg , waiting for an escort to accompany him to Warsaw , where the court then was ...
... sent them away with applause . COUNT SAXE , the hero whom France yet honours with its regret , happened , in the year 1705 , to be at the city of Lemburg , waiting for an escort to accompany him to Warsaw , where the court then was ...
67. oldal
... sent a Dominican friar with a second sum- mons , who met with a similar fate . The count then assembling his people : " You see , " said he , " that we can hope for no quarter ; to save our lives therefore , we must force our way ...
... sent a Dominican friar with a second sum- mons , who met with a similar fate . The count then assembling his people : " You see , " said he , " that we can hope for no quarter ; to save our lives therefore , we must force our way ...
70. oldal
... by characters the most humble or the most exalted . - David Gam , a Welsh cap- tain , sent by Henry the Fifth to reconnoitre the French army before the battle of Agincourt ( when their force amounted to more than six times 70 LETTER IV .
... by characters the most humble or the most exalted . - David Gam , a Welsh cap- tain , sent by Henry the Fifth to reconnoitre the French army before the battle of Agincourt ( when their force amounted to more than six times 70 LETTER IV .
72. oldal
... sent for , and he was de- sired to beat a march ; which he accordingly did , to remove the Frenchman's suspicion . He was then told to beat a retreat . " A retreat ! " said he ; " there is no such beat known in the English service ...
... sent for , and he was de- sired to beat a march ; which he accordingly did , to remove the Frenchman's suspicion . He was then told to beat a retreat . " A retreat ! " said he ; " there is no such beat known in the English service ...
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59. oldal - This gentleman being sent out by Henry, before the battle, to reconnoitre the enemy, and to find out their strength, made this report : — " May it please you, my liege, there are enough to be killed, enough to be taken prisoners, and enough to run away.
35. oldal - There are some, perhaps, who would imagine that every Englishman fights better than the subjects of absolute governments, because he has more to defend. But what has the English more than the French soldier? Property they are both commonly without. Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving ; and this choice is, I suppose, equally allowed in every country.
277. oldal - I conceive, because he could not handsomely without danger of discovery, had not paired the sword I sent him to Paris ; bringing one of the same length, but twice as broad ; my second excepted against it, and advised me to match my own, and send him the choice, which I obeyed ; it being you know, the challenger's privilege to elect his weapon. At the delivery of the sword, which was performed by sir John...
15. oldal - 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 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, spiritless and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and...
260. oldal - ... society, an affront is held to be a serious injury. It must, therefore, be resented, or rather a duel must be fought upon it ; as men have agreed to banish from their society one who puts up with an affront without fighting a duel. Now, sir, it is never unlawful to fight in self-defence.
65. oldal - Lord Chesterfield's character of this noblemen is too remarkable to be omitted. " Of all the men that ever I knew in my life, (and I knew him extremely well,) the late Duke of Marlborough possessed the graces in the highest degree, not to say engrossed them...
261. oldal - He, then, who fights a duel, does not fight from passion against his antagonist, but out of self-defence ; to avert the stigma of the world, and to prevent himself from being driven out of society. I could wish there was not that superfluity of refinement; but while such notions prevail, no. doubt a man may lawfully fight a duel.
280. oldal - I am slain!' seconding his speech with all the force he had to cast me. But being too weak, after I had defended his assault, I easily became master of him, laying him on his back; when being upon him, I redemanded if he would request his life, but it seemed he prized it not at so dear a rate to be beholden for it; bravely replying
32. oldal - French to leadj but it is, I think, universally allowed, that the English soldiers are more willing to follow. Our nation...
284. oldal - Any officer or soldier who shall upbraid another for refusing a challenge, shall himself be punished as a challenger; and all officers and soldiers are hereby discharged from any disgrace or opinion of disadvantage which might arise from their having refused to accept of challenges, as they will only have acted in obedience to the laws, and done their duty as good soldiers who subject themselves to discipline.