 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1871 - 606 ページ
...circumstances, he wrote to D'Argens on the 28th : " You, as a follower of Epicurus, put a value upon life. As for me, I regard death from the Stoic point of view. Never shall I see the moment which will oblige me to make a disadvantageous peace. No persuasion, no eloquence, shall ever induce... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 332 ページ
...certain of executing said Order ; upon which they intend, they also, to winter in those Elbe-Prussian parts, and conjointly to crush Friedrich into great..." shall I see the moment that forces me to make a disad" vantageous Peace ; no persuasion, no eloquence, shall ever " induce me to sign my dishonour.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1865 - 628 ページ
...certain of executing said Order ; upon which they intend, they also, to winter in those Elbe-Prussian parts, and conjointly to crush Friedrich into great..." shall I see the moment that forces me to make a disad" vantageous Peace ; no persuasion, no eloquence, shall ever " induce me to sign my dishonour.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1884 - 554 ページ
...lost his mother and his devoted sister Wilhelmina. " You as a follower of Epicurus put a value upon life ; as for me, I regard death from the Stoic point of view. I have told you, and I repeat it, never shall my hand sign a humiliating peace. Finish this campaign... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1884 - 540 ページ
...lost his mother and his devoted sister Wilhelmina. " You as a follower of Epicurus put a value upon life ; as for me, I regard death from the Stoic point of view. I have told you, and I repeat it, never shall my hand sign a humiliating peace. Finish this campaign... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1884 - 538 ページ
...lost his mother and his devoted sister Wilhelmina. " You as a follower of Epicurus put a value upon life ; as for me, I regard death from the Stoic point of view. I have told you, and I repeat it, never shall my hand sign a humiliating peace. Finish this campaign... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 714 ページ
...Order shall be impossible to Daun. " Were it to be possible, we are landless. Where are our reeruits, our magazines, our resources for a new Campaign ?...You, as a follower of Epicurus, put a value on life ; a» for me, I regard death from the Stoic point of view. Never shall I see the moment that forces... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 720 ページ
...resources for a new Campaign ? We may as well die, as suffer that to be possible ! " Such is Friedrich'« fixed view. He says to D'Argens : — "You, as a follower of Epicurus, put a value on life; » for me, I regard death from the Stoic point of view. Never shall I see the moment that forces me... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1898 - 478 ページ
...lost his mother and his devoted sister Wilhelmina. "You as a follower of Epicurus put a value upon life; as for me, I regard death from the Stoic point of view. I have told you, and I repeat it, never shall my hand sign a humiliating peace. Finish this campaign... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1907 - 482 ページ
...lost his mother and his devoted sister Wilhelmina. "You as a follower of Epicurus put a value upon life ; as for me, I regard death from the Stoic point of view. I have told you, and I repeat it, never shall my hand sign a humiliating peace. Finish this campaign... | |
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Friedrich into great confinement indeed. Friedrich is aware of this Vienna Order; which is a kind of comfort in the circumstances. The intentions of the hungry Russians, too, are legible to Friedrich ; and he is much resolved that said Order shall be... 
