It is not, however, the grandeur of military success which has alone fixed our admiration, or commanded our applause. It has been that generous and lofty spirit which inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day... The Literary panorama - Page 511818Full view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1833 - 646 pages
...inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory : that moral courage and enduring...which, in perilous times, when gloom and doubt had bescl ordinary minds, stood, nevertheless, unshaken ; and that ascendancy of character which, uniting... | |
| 1835 - 284 pages
...inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory ; that moral courage and enduring...ordinary minds, stood, nevertheless, unshaken ; and that ascendency of character, which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled you to wield... | |
| Periodicals - 1835 - 272 pages
...inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory ; that moral courage and enduring...ordinary minds, stood, nevertheless, unshaken ; and that ascendency of character, which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled you to wield... | |
| Robert Southey - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1837 - 518 pages
...inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory ; that moral courage and enduring...ordinary minds, stood nevertheless unshaken ; and that ascendency of character which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled you to wield... | |
| Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1838 - 736 pages
...inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory ; that moral courage and enduring...and rival nations, enabled you to wield at will the fate and fortunes of mighty empires. ' " For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this... | |
| Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1838 - 760 pages
...inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory ; that moral courage and enduring...and rival nations, enabled you to wield at will the fate and fortunes of mighty empires. ' " For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this... | |
| George Soane - 1839 - 838 pages
...inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory ; that moral courage and enduring...and rival nations, enabled you to wield at will the fate and fortunes of mighty empires. " For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this... | |
| sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 620 pages
...inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory; that moral courage and enduring...and rival nations, enabled you to wield at will the fate and fortunes of mighty empires. " It now only remains that we congratulate your grace on the high... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1842 - 1130 pages
...inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory ; that moral courage and enduring...ordinary minds, stood nevertheless unshaken ; and that ascendency of character, which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled you to wield... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory ! That moral and enduring fortitude, which, in perilous times,...at will, the fates and fortunes of mighty empires ! " When the will of Heaven, and the common destinies of our nature, shall have swept away the present... | |
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