| Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1808 - 290 pages
...serviceable to him in bringing such men in, as I thought had a spirit that would do something in the work. ' Your troops,' said I, ' are most of them old decayed...serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows; — and their troops are gentlemen*! sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. And do you think that the... | |
| John Britton - 1808 - 882 pages
...such men in, as I thought had a spirit that would do something in the work, ' Your troops,' said 1, ' are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ;— and their troops are-gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. And do you think that the... | |
| John Britton - 1808 - 896 pages
...as 1 thought had a spirit ihat would do something in the work. ' Your troops," said I, ' arc nx.st of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows;— ind their troops are rentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. And do you think tliat... | |
| William Harris - 1814 - 560 pages
...had a spirit, that would do something in the work: this is very true that I tell you, God knows that I lie not. Your troops, said I, are most of them old...such kind of fellows ; and, said I, their troops are gentlemens sons, younger sons, and persons of quality, do you think that the spirits of such base and... | |
| William Harris - 1814 - 546 pages
...something in the work : this is very true that I tell you, God knows that I lie not. Your troops, said J, are most of them old decayed serving-men and tapsters,...such kind of fellows ; and, said I, their troops are gentlemens sons, younger sons, and persons of quality, do you think that the spirits of such base and... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 pages
...him in bringing such men in, as I thought had a spirit that would do something in the work. This is very true that I tell you, God knows I lie not. Your troops, said I, are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and said I, their troops are gentlemen's sons,... | |
| 1821 - 604 pages
...him in bringing such men in, as I thought had a spirit that would do something in the work. This is very true that I tell you, God knows I lie not. Your troops, said I, are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows; and said I, their troops are gentlemen's sons,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 pages
...in, as I thought had a spirit that would do something in the work. This is very true that I tell yon, God knows I lie not. Your troops, said I, are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and said I, their troops are gentlemen's sons,... | |
| Thomas Cromwell - 1822 - 622 pages
...engagement, were beaten on every hand,' he tells them that he suggested to that patriot the remedy: — ' Your troops, said I, are most of them old decayed...tapsters, and such kind of fellows; and, said I, their (the King's) troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality : —do you think the... | |
| David Hume - 1825 - 514 pages
...parliamentary armies in the end victorious. " Your troops (said he to Hambden, according to his own account)" are most of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters, and such kind of fellows; the king's forces are composed of gentlemen's younger sons and persons of good quality. And do you... | |
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