 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1854 - 824 pągines
...passed a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally in civil war ; and I must say this, that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice...say that there is nothing which destroys property, cuts up prosperity by the roots, and demoralizes character, to the degree that civil war does. In such... | |
 | George Jennings Davies - 1854 - 116 pągines
...passed a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally in civil war, and I must say this, that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice...even one month of civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it. There is nothing which destroys property,... | |
 | 1855 - 354 pągines
...passed a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally in civil war ; and I must say this, that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice...say that there is nothing which destroys property, cuts up prosperity by the roots, and demoralises character, to the degree that civil war does. In such... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pągines
...probably a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally in civil war ; and I must say this, that if I could avoid by any sacrifice whatever, even one month of civil war iii the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to it. I say there is nothing... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1858 - 794 pągines
...longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally, I may say, in civil war ; and I must say this, that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice...even one month of civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it.' In order to do this now, in his absolute... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1860 - 698 pągines
...passed a longer period of my life in " war than most men, and principally in civil war — and " I must say this, that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice...say that there is nothing which " destroys property, cuts up prosperity by the roots, and " demoralizes character to the degree that civil war " does. In... | |
 | William Edward Baxter - 1860 - 264 pągines
...passed a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally in civil war ; and I must say this, that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice...I would sacrifice my life in order to do it. I say there is nothing which destroys property, eats up prosperity by the roots, and demoralizes the character,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1862 - 738 pągines
...longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally, I may say, in civil war ; and I must say this, — that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice...even one month of civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it. I eay that there is nothing which destroys... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1862 - 540 pągines
...longer period of life engaged in war than most men, and principally, I may say, in civil war ; and I must say this, — that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice...even one month of civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it." After a debate of three nights, the bill... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1863 - 608 pągines
...considerations, by the neces- ^pr[^2d*' sity of averting a civil war, saying, " If I could 1829avoid, by any sacrifice whatever, even one month of civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it." He added, that when the Irish rebellion... | |
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I am one of those who have probably passed a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally, I may say, in civil war ; and I must say this — that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice whatever, even one month of civil war in the... 
