| David Stewart - 1822 - 552 pągines
...Impetuosity on one side is apt to paralyze resistance on the other, and, if attacked " by furies rushing in upon them, with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest," an enemy may have their nerves somewhat disordered by the shock ; and, while the arm is rendered unsteady,... | |
| David Stewart - 1822 - 658 pągines
...our officers, who animated the troops by their example, "ashen the Highland Juries rushed in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest. I cannot say much • Sec Appendix KK. f Doddridge's Life of Colonel Gardiner. VOL. I. s of the other... | |
| 1827 - 932 pągines
...— n my commission," said the warlike chaplain, throwing it towards his colonel. It may be easily supposed that the matter was only remembered as a...decided shock of paralysis in the sixtieth year of bis life, from which period he bethe news of Waterloo acted on the aged patriot as a nunc dimiUit.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 pągines
...— n my commission,' said the warlike chaplain, throwing it towards his colonel. It may be easily supposed that the matter was only remembered as a...from a decided shock of paralysis in the sixtieth jear of his life ; from which period he became a strict Pythagorean in his diet, eating nothing but... | |
| Daniel MacKinnon - 1833 - 540 pągines
...none could exceed them in advance, none but our officers when " the Highland furies rushed in upon us with more violence than " ever did a sea driven by a tempest. I cannot say much for " the other auxiliaries ; some looked as if they had no concern in " the matter.... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 386 pągines
...him that his commission did not entitle him to be present in the post which he had assumed. " D — n my commission," said the warlike chaplain, throwing...than ever did a sea driven by a tempest." Professor A<iam Fergusson's subsequent history is well known. He recovered from a decided shock of paralysis... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 432 pągines
...in his hand. II<; desired him to go to the rear with the surgeons, a proposal •which Adam Ferguson spurned. Sir Robert at length told him that his commission...violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.' "—Miscellaneous Prose Works, rot. XIX. p. Ml. or three times, for the purposes of a levee or drawingroom.... | |
| Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 430 pągines
...that his commission did not entitle him to be present in the post which he had assumed.— 'D — n my commission,' said the warlike chaplain, throwing...violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.' ' *— Miscettaneous Prose Works. more deep-felt gratification from his Majesty's kind and paternal... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 260 pągines
...— n my commission,' said the warlike chaplain, throwing it towards his colonel. It may be easily supposed that the matter was only remembered as a...violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.' " This militant chaplain remained with his regiment until 1757, when he accepted of the situation of... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 440 pągines
...supposed that the matter was only remembered as a good jest; but the future historian of Rome-shared the honours and dangers of that dreadful day, where,...with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.'"'—Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. XfX.p.33l. or three times, for the purposes of a levee... | |
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