| 1816 - 658 Seiten
...as well as acted, up to the occasion. ' " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil; but, to win such a battle as this... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 Seiten
...as well as acted, up to the occasion. ' " Believe me," he Afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win such a battle as this... | |
| 1816 - 1052 Seiten
...of its value and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even »ucb a battle... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1816 - 528 Seiten
...of. its value and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle... | |
| Walter Scott - 1816 - 500 Seiten
...of its value and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle... | |
| Walter Scott - 1816 - 488 Seiten
...of its value and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle... | |
| 1821 - 388 Seiten
...of victory could not remove bis sorrow: " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but to win even such a battle as... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 538 Seiten
...its value, and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 588 Seiten
...its value, and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle... | |
| John James M'Gregor - 1827 - 542 Seiten
...powerful sensations which he afterwards thus expressed to a friend,—" Believe me, that nothing excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my toops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil; but to win even such a battle as... | |
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