 The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 122by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our...rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaclion ; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...Falkland Iflands, p. 9. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands, and ten thousands that perished in...rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefactions, pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied, among men made... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...by heroick fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very imail part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in teuts and ships, amidst damps and... | |
 | Military art and science - 1809 - 338 pages
...formidable than the cannon or the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our contest with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt...unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance of helpless mU »ery ; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...by heroick fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, avery small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the, thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Sfiain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Sfiain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished jn tents and ships,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1817 - 800 pages
...by heroic fiction. War has means •f destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with I- ranee and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents,... | |
 | Peace - 1821 - 388 pages
...represented by heroic fiction. Warhas means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our...torpid, spiritless, and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitiea among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery, and were at last whelmed... | |
 | William Ladd - Peace - 1827 - 298 pages
...represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands, that perished in...unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance pf hopeless misery, and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and... | |
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