The Life and Misfortunes and the Military Career of Brig. Gen. Sir John Johnson, BartC. H. Ludwig, printer, 1882 - 167 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina ix - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
Pàgina cxxiv - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Pàgina xc - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Pàgina v - I do hereby command them to obey you as their captain, and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive from me your Major, Major-Commandant, or any other of your superior officers, according to the rules and discipline of war.
Pàgina cxxi - ... twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder, and shall appear so armed, accoutred and provided, when called out to exercise, or into service, except that, when called out on company days to exercise only, he may appear without a knapsack.
Pàgina viii - Sat still, and saw it prest by other hands. Fortune came smiling to my youth, and wooed it, And purple greatness met my ripened years. When first I came to empire, I was borne On tides of people, crowding to my triumphs; The wish of nations, and the willing world Received me as its pledge of future peace...
Pàgina xvi - In my father's grave to lie. There chant my solemn requiem In Hexham's holy towers; And let six maids of fair Tynedale Scatter my grave with flowers.
Pàgina xx - But at the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes and the expense of millions, but by contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations?
Pàgina viii - On tides of people, crowding to my triumphs, The wish of nations; and the willing world Receiv'd me as its pledge of future peace; I was so great, so happy, so belov'd, Fate could not...
Pàgina xii - For my own part there was not a moment during the Revolution when I would not have given everything I possessed for a restoration to the state of things before the contest began, provided we could have had a sufficient security for its continuance.