 ... that night, we perceived, gathered towards the hills labouring to make a perfect interposition between us and Berwick. And, having in this posture a great advantage through his better knowledge of the country, he effected it by sending a considerable...  The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - 126 ページ 編集 - 1905全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1865 - 538 ページ
...own professional way. The finest of those deep ravines cut into the rock of St. Abb's Head, he calls a place " where ten men to hinder are better than forty to make their way." He left his mark on the country ; not such a brand as he put on Ireland, for only a portion of the... | |
 | George Brodie - 1866 - 626 ページ
...sent forward a party to seize the pass at Cockburn's Path, where, as Cromwell says in his dispatch, ' ten men to hinder are better than forty to make their way.' Position of Down Hill is not distant two miles from Dunbar. In orfiJown itself it is small, the largest... | |
 | François Guizot - 1868 - 648 ページ
...Cockburuspath, between that town and the English border; a narrow defile, "where," says Cromwell himself, "ten men to hinder are better than forty to make their way." As incapable of illusion as of discouragement, Cromwell wrote at once to Sir Arthur Haslerig, governor... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 436 ページ
...of the country, he effected it: by sending a considerable party to the strait Pass at Copperspath ; where ten men to hinder are better than forty to make their way. And truly this was an exigent to us,1 wherewith the Enemy reproached us ; — ' as' with that condition... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - 1871 - 292 ページ
...of the country, he effected it : by sending a considerable party to the strait Pass at Copperspath ; where ten men to hinder are better than forty to make their way. And truly this was an exigent to us,13 wherewith the Enemy reproached us ; — ' as' with that condition... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1873 - 734 ページ
...threw forward a party who seized upon the pass of Cocksburn-path, " where," to use Cromwell's words, " ten men to hinder are better than forty to make their way," and which entirely cut him off from Berwick. Cromwell's position was now critical, for he was surrounded... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - 404 ページ
...Copperspath, some eight or nine miles south of Dunbar, the road to Berwick runs through a narrow pass, " where ten men to hinder are better than forty to make their way," which was itself already held by the enemy. To return westwards to Musselburgh was worse than useless.... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - 1876 - 420 ページ
...Copperspath, some eight or nine miles south of Dunbar, the road to Berwick runs through a narrow pass, " where ten men to hinder are better than forty to make their way," which was itself already held by the enemy. To return westwards to Musselburgh was worse than useless.... | |
 | English newspapers - 1876 - 64 ページ
...country, which he effected by sending a considerable party to the strait Passe at Copperspath, where tenne men to hinder, are better than forty to make their way And truly this was an exegent to us, wherewith the Enemy reproached us, with that condition the Parliaments... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1876 - 528 ページ
...considerable detachment occupying the defile of Copperspath, — " so narrow," said Cromwell himself, " that ten men to hinder are better than forty to make their way." Lesley at last yielded to the solicitations and anger of the fanatics. He had hitherto carefully avoided... | |
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