 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 500 ページ
...received his mortal wound while expostulating with the General on the personal danger to which hewas exposing himself. Lieutenant Colonel Canning, and...win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune, were it not... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 488 ページ
...expostulating with the General on the personal danger to which he was exposing himself. Lieutenant-Colonel Canning, and many of our lost heroes, died with the...win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives <jf so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune, were it... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1816 - 528 ページ
...of our lost heroes, died with the Duke's name on their expiring lips. Amid the havoc which had beep made among his immediate attendants, his Grace sent...win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune, were it not... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 294 ページ
...expostulating with the General on the personal danger to which he was exposing himself. Lieutenant-Colonel Canning, and many of our lost heroes, died with the...lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The braven f my troops has hitherto saved me from that great evil; but, l« win even such a battle as this... | |
 | 1816 - 1052 ページ
...approached him, can add to the honours of a hero, never did a general receive so many and such aflecting proofs of it ; and their devotion was repaid by his...saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even »ucb a battle as this of Waterloo, at 'the exprnce of the lives of so many gallant friend«, could... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 534 ページ
...repaid by his sense of its value and sorrow for their loss. '« Believe me," he afterwards said, «c that nothing, •excepting a battle lost, can be half...win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune, were it not... | |
 | 1816 - 658 ページ
...character, as the anecdotes which bespeak him to have felt, as well as acted, up to the occasion. ' " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting...hitherto saved me from that greater evil; but, to win such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expense of the lives of so many gallant friends, could only... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 ページ
...character, as the anecdotes which bespeak him to have felt, as well as acted, up to the occasion. ' " Believe me," he Afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting...hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expense of the lives of so many gallant friends, could only... | |
 | 1821 - 388 ページ
...Blücher at last!" and burst into tears. Even the full assurance of victory could not remove bis sorrow: " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting...win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune, were it not... | |
 | John James M'Gregor - 1827 - 542 ページ
...no^doubt by those 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 this of Waterloo,... | |
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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... 
