 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...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...rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaclion ; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...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...rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefactions, pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied, among men made... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very imail part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in teuts and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and... | |
 | George Beaumont - War - 1808 - 218 pages
...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...unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...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...unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, avery small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the...gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate bylong continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at Jast whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...sword. Of the, thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Sfiain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy...unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Sfiain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished jn tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gasping... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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...unpitied among men made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1817 - 800 pages
...and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with I- ranee and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke...in tents, and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pile, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gaspiog and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate... | |
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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... 
