... without first praying at the head of his troops ; after which he used to thunder out, in a strong and energetic manner, a German hymn, in which he was joined by his whole army : the effect of thirty or forty thousand people thus singing together was... Pneumanee: Or, The Fairy of the Nineteenth Century - Página 51por John William Cunningham - 1815 - 259 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 páginas
...thirty or forty thousand people thus singing together was wonderful and terrible. He used to say, that a man made a better soldier in proportion to his being, a better Christian, and there was no person so happy as those who died in the performance of their duty. Of the death of this... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1805 - 320 páginas
...thirty or forty thousand people thus singing together was wonderful and terrible. He used to say, that a man made a better soldier in proportion to his being a better Christian, and there was no person so happy as those who died in the performance of their duty. Of the death of this... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 páginas
...thirty or forty thousand people thus singing together was wonderful and terrible. He used to say, that a man made a better soldier in proportion to his being a better Christian, and there was no person so happy as those who died in the performance of their duty. In front of this statue,... | |
| Pneumanee (fict.name.) - 1814 - 288 páginas
...of your hero to-day, would have required so many symbols to learn, that to a memory so good as yours the anecdote itself Could not cost you half the trouble."...said, a man made a better soldier in proportion to hi» being a better Christian; and was said to have died with his sword in his hand, the word of command... | |
| John Frost - 1846 - 332 páginas
...slow dull ox gay trappings wants; To plough the fiery courser pants." Gustavus used to say, " That a man made a better soldier, in proportion to his being a better Christian." He used also to say, " That there were no persons so happy as those that died in the performance of... | |
| Edward Parsons - 1879 - 320 páginas
...the success I have achieved to my skill and good conduct alone." The same Gustavus used to say, "That a man made a better soldier in proportion to his being a better Christian." DR. BOERHAAVE AND THE BIBLE. It was the daily practice of that eminent physician, Dr. Boerhaavc, throughout... | |
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