 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 568 pages
...incapable of going through the service of a campaign, and would melt away with sickness before they could face an enemy ; so that a very slight force would...more than sufficient for their complete reduction. Many ludicrous stories were told of their cowardice, greatly to the entertainment of the minisCH\P.... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1810 - 578 pages
...incapable of going through the service of a campaign, and would melt away with sickness before they could face an enemy ; so that a very slight force would...more than sufficient for their complete reduction. Many ludicrous stories were told of their cowardice, greatly to the entertainment of the minis528 CHiP.... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1816 - 834 pages
...incapable of going through the service of a campaign, and would melt away with sickness before they could face an enemy; so that a very slight force would be...more than sufficient for their complete reduction. Many ludicrous stories were told of their cowardice, greatly to the entertainment of the ministerial... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1820 - 502 pages
...incapable of going through the service of a campaign, and would melt away with sickness before they could face an enemy ; so that a very slight force would...more than sufficient for their complete reduction. Many ludicrous stories were told of their cowardice, greatly to the entertainment of the ministerial... | |
 | Virginia - 1833 - 104 pages
...incapable * of going through the service of a campaign, and would melt away with sickness rjefore^iey would face an enemy, so that a very. slight force...captivity, this philosophical hero was detected in an aft of the most base hypocrisy, in Quebec. As the • • letters of the English officers were not... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - United States - 1850 - 216 pages
...incapable of going through the service of a campaign, and would melt away with sickness, before they could face an enemy ; so that a very slight force would...more than sufficient for their complete reduction. So infatuated was he, with this opinion, that he declared openly, he would undertake, with five regiments... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - United States - 1851 - 212 pages
...going through the service of a campaign, and would melt away with sickness, before they could <ace an enemy; so that a very slight force would be more than sufficient for their complete reduction. Ro infatuated was he, with this opinion, that he declared openly, he would undertake, with five regiments... | |
 | GEORGE BANOROIT - 1858 - 450 pages
...not soldiers and never could be made so, being naturally pusillanimous and incapable of discipline; that a very slight force would be more than sufficient for their complete reduction; 55 and he fortified his statement by repeating their peculiar expressions, and ridiculing their religous... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1858 - 454 pages
...not soldiers and never could be made so, being naturally pusillanimous and incapable of discipline ; that a very slight force would be more than sufficient for their complete reduction ; " and he fortified his statement by repeating their peculiar expressions, and ridiculing their religous... | |
 | LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY - 1858 - 448 pages
...not soldiers and never could be made so, being naturally pusillanimous and incapable of discipline; that a very slight force would be more than sufficient for their complete reduction ; " and he fortified his statement by repeating their peculiar expressions, and ridiculing their religous... | |
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By their laziness, uncleanliness, or radical defects of constitution, they were incapable of going through the service of a campaign, and would melt away with sickness before they would face an enemy, so that a very slight force would be more than sufficient... 
