 We saw nothing in him that looked like spirit. He never appeared with cheerfulness and vigour to animate us. Our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. His countenance looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad amongst us soldiers,...  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Pàgina 146per Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - 1845 - 527 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edward Farr - 1856 - 570 pàgines
...said of him • " He cared not to come abroad amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms, or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found...dejected him : I am sure the figure he made dejected us." This was a bad omen : where mutual confidence is wanting between a leader and his troops there can... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 444 pàgines
...looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found...figure he made dejected " us; and, had he sent us but 5000 men of good troops, " and never himself come amongst us, we had done " other things than we have... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1860 - 650 pàgines
...extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad amongst us poor soldiers, or to see us handle our arms, or do our exercise. Some said, the circumstances he found...dejected us ; and had he sent us but five thousand of good troops, and never himself come amongst us, we had done other things than we have now done."... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 300 pàgines
...writing of him, says: "He cared not to come abroad amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms, or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found...dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us." On the approach of Argyle the Pretender retired to Montrose, and there, with Mar and a few other nobles,... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - 298 pàgines
...of him, says : " He cared not to come abroad amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms, or do our exercise. Some said the circumstances he found...dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us." On the approach of Argyle the Pretender retired to Montrose, and there, with Mar and a few other nobles,... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - 374 pàgines
...not to come abroad amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms, or do our exercise. Some Mid the circumstances he found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us." On the approach of Argyle the Pretender retired to Montrose, and there, with Mar and a few other nobles,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 660 pàgines
...extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad amongst us poor soldiers, or to see us handle our arms, or do our exercise. Some said, the circumstances he found...him. I am sure the figure he made dejected us ; and liad he sent us but five thousand of good troops, and never himself come amongst us, we had done other... | |
 | William Marshall - 1875 - 328 pàgines
...to see us handle our arms or do our exercise. Some said, the circumstances he found us in aejected him ; I am sure the figure he made dejected us : and had he sent us but 5000 men of good troops, and never himself come^mongst us, we had done other things than we have done... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1792 - 950 pàgines
...extremely he»ry. He cared not to come abroad amongst as soldiers, or to see us handle our arms or do oar exercise. Some said the circumstances he found us in dejected him ; I am sure the figure h« made dejected us."1 There was, in fact, a double disappointment — a universal dejection. Instead... | |
 | Emily Cooper - 1877 - 560 pàgines
...disappointed in us, we were tenfold more so in him. We saw nothing in him that looked like spirit. Some said the circumstances he found us in, dejected...figure he made dejected us, and had he sent us but 5,000 good soldiers and never come himself amongst us, we had done other things.' 1 James's speech... | |
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