 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1871 - 602 pages
...battle with Jumonville, in 1 754, when he was twenty -two years of age, it is related that he said, ' I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound ! ' King George the Second added, ' He would not say so if he had been used * In Tillemain's Vie de... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1871 - 256 pages
...battle with Jumonville, in 1754, when he was twenty-two years of age, it is related that he said, ' I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound ! ' King George the Second added, ' He would not say so if he had been used * In Villemain's Vie de... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1873 - 366 pages
...received all the enemy's fire ; and it was the part where the man was killed and the rest wounded. I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." This rodomontade, as Henry Walpole terms it, reached the ears of George II. " He would not say so,"... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 pages
...and it had roused a great military spirit within him. In writing 'to his brother of it, he says, " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." In later life, when he was reminded of this remark, his answer was, " If I said so, it was when I was... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - Boston (Mass.) - 1876 - 52 pages
...letter addressed to his brother that got into the " London Magazine " in 1754, in which he says, " I heard the bullets whistle ; and believe me there is something charming in the sound." He was next appointed a lieutenantcolonel in the Virginia forces. In this capacity he engaged in a... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 614 pages
...without any wound," wrote Washington to his brother ; and in a postscript these words escaped him : " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." Ten of the French were killed, among them Jumonville, the commander of the party ; and twenty-one were... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1876 - 506 pages
...letter addressed to his brother that got into the " London Magazine " in 1754, in which he says, " I heard the bullets whistle ; and believe me there is something charming in the sound." He was next appointed a lieutenantcolonel in the Virginia forces. In this capacity he engaged in a... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1880 - 704 pages
...him to a great deal of ridicule. In the letter he said ' I fortunately escaped without any wound. ... I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me there is something charming in the sound.' Walpole (Memoirs) says of this, alluding to an article of the capitulation by which no further military... | |
 | 1880 - 690 pages
...him to a great deal of ridicule. In the letter he said ' I fortunately escaped without any wound. ... I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me there is something charming in the sound.' Walpole (Memoirs) says of this, alluding to an article of the capitulation by which no further military... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...President of the United Stales, 1789-97, when he finally retired from public life; died Dec. 11, 1799.] I heard the bullets whistle ; and believe me, there is something charming in the sound. From a letter to his mother, of the first action of the French and Indian War, in which he defeated... | |
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I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II. 
