 | 1820 - 544 páginas
...swearing were seldom heard among the officers; a sot and a drunkard, was the object of scorn; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar.' " Vol. III. pp. 658 — 66O. * Archdeacon Coxe has conferred an obligation on his country, by undertaking... | |
 | William Coxe - 1819 - 734 páginas
...were seldom heard among the officers ; a sot and a drunkard, was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar."* A leading feature in the character of the duke of Marlborough, was, his generous magnanimity. Sincere... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 486 páginas
...campaigns. heard among the officers ; a sot and a drunkard, was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the...clean, and had an .air and spirit above the vulgar." * A leading feature in the character of the duke of 'Marlborough, was his generous magnanimity. Sincere... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 páginas
...regulations and example, that ' cursing and swearing were seldom heard among the officers, and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the...nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, civil, sensible and clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar.' But it is only from the present... | |
 | 1820 - 632 páginas
...regulations and example, that 'cursing and swearing were seldom heard among the officers, and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the...nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, civil, sensible arid clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar.' But it is only from the present... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 616 páginas
...regulations and example, that' cursing and swearing were seldom heard among the officers, and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the...nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, civil, sensible and clean, and had an air and spirit abov« the vulgar.' But it is only from the present... | |
 | 1834 - 454 páginas
...were seldom heard among the officers ; a sot and a drunkard was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar." The Duchess of Marlborough collected ample materials for her husband's life, and committed the task... | |
 | 1833 - 646 páginas
...seldom heard among the officers ; a drunkard was the object of scorn ; and his troops, many of whom were the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, civil, sensible, and cleanly. A sincere observer of religious duties himself, he enforced their performance... | |
 | 1834 - 514 páginas
...were seldom heard among the officers ; a sot and a drunkard was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the...clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar." The Duchess of Marlborough collected ample materials for her husband's life, and committed the task... | |
 | 1834 - 508 páginas
...among the officers ; a drunkard was an object of scorn; 45-2 453 and his troops, many of whom were the refuse and dregs of the nation, became,' at the close of one or two campaigns, civil, sensible, and cleanly. A sincere observer of religious duties himself, the Duke enforced their... | |
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His camp," says a biographer who had served in it, " resembled a great, well-governed city. Cursing and swearing were seldom heard among the officers ; a sot and a drunkard was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs... 
