The United Service Journal, 1. részH. Colburn, 1837 |
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... less sparing than on the battle - field , and the tide of life ebbs not the less surely , extracted drop by drop , under the wasting influence of tropical disease , than when it flowed in the gushing streams which crimsoned the fields ...
... less sparing than on the battle - field , and the tide of life ebbs not the less surely , extracted drop by drop , under the wasting influence of tropical disease , than when it flowed in the gushing streams which crimsoned the fields ...
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... less meritorious , and whose sufferings and sacrifices in the stern path of professional duty are no less worthy of reward — we mean the officers . In every nation of modern times the efficiency of the Army is main- tained , and an ...
... less meritorious , and whose sufferings and sacrifices in the stern path of professional duty are no less worthy of reward — we mean the officers . In every nation of modern times the efficiency of the Army is main- tained , and an ...
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... less start- ling than true . They rest not on mere assertion , but on the warrants and custom of the Service regulating the retirement of officers , the operation of which it requires only a very simple detail of figures to explain . It ...
... less start- ling than true . They rest not on mere assertion , but on the warrants and custom of the Service regulating the retirement of officers , the operation of which it requires only a very simple detail of figures to explain . It ...
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... less worthy objects , goes to cheer the winter of their declining years , to cover the expenses for professional aid which the manifold diseases contracted in the worst of climates necessarily entail on them . All they can avail them ...
... less worthy objects , goes to cheer the winter of their declining years , to cover the expenses for professional aid which the manifold diseases contracted in the worst of climates necessarily entail on them . All they can avail them ...
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... less is the reward ! However extraordinary such a system of legislation must appear , its most prominent defects sink into comparative insignificance , when we come to compare the value of the reward thus accorded to old officers with ...
... less is the reward ! However extraordinary such a system of legislation must appear , its most prominent defects sink into comparative insignificance , when we come to compare the value of the reward thus accorded to old officers with ...
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466. oldal - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give...
145. oldal - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
214. oldal - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land!
467. oldal - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys, Why, soldiers, why ? Whose business 'tis to die...
264. oldal - ... in the darkness how well the field was won ; he was alone, the flush of victory was on his brow, and his eyes were eager and watchful, but his voice was calm, and even gentle. More than the rival of Marlborough, since he had defeated greater warriors than Marlborough ever encountered, with a prescient pride he seemed only to accept this glory, as an earnest of greater things.
413. oldal - I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, that they have...
433. oldal - The dullest genius cannot fail To find the moral of my tale : That the distinguish'd part of men, With compass, pencil, sword, or pen, Should in life's visit leave their name, In characters, which may proclaim, That they with ardour strove to raise At once their arts, and country's praise; And in their working took great care, That all was full, and round, and fair.
30. oldal - ... in these cases alone, the commander of the said ship of war may detain them, and having detained them, he is to bring them, as soon as possible, for judgment before that of the two mixed Commissions appointed by the...
64. oldal - Burgos on the one hand, and from Madrid on the other, the Officers lost all command over their men. Irregularities and outrages of all descriptions were committed with impunity ; and losses have been sustained which ought never to have occurred. Yet the necessity for retreat existing, none was ever made...
31. oldal - ... slaves on board, may detain and bring away such vessels, in order that they may be brought to trial before the tribunals established for this purpose, as shall hereinafter be specified.