 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
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1855 - 670 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...beset ordinary minds, stood nevertheless unshaken ; •4d that ascendancy of character, which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled... | |
 | 1858 - 798 pages
...was always a day of victory; at tliat moral eoura'ge and'enduring fortitude which, in perilous time*, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary minds, stood, nevertheless, unshaken ; and at that ascendancy of diameter which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled him... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1860 - 722 pages
...inspired his troops with unbounded con" fidence, and taught them to know that the day of " battle was a day of victory ; that moral courage and " enduring...ordinary minds, stood " nevertheless unshaken ; and that ascendency of cha" racter, which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival " nations, enabled him... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 622 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 «mpires. " For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this... | |
 | Charles Abbot (Baron Colchester) - Great Britain - 1861 - 640 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... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - Europe - 1863 - 422 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 that ascendancy of character which, uniting the energy of jealous and rival nations, enabled you to wield at will the fate and fortunes of mighty empires.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1867 - 606 pages
...success was eloquently ascribed by Mr. Abbot, the Speaker of the House of Commons, to ' that ascendency of character which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled him to wield at will the fate and fortunes of mighty empires ;' and we cannot do better than add the... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 416 pages
...your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always the 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 house,... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 418 pages
...unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always the day of victor}', — that moral courage and enduring fortitude, which,...minds, stood, nevertheless, unshaken ; — and that aseendancy of character, which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled you to wield... | |
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