| United States - 1842 - 650 pages
...thousand men, advanced to the gates of Paris, which I thereupon expected to find given up to him withouta struggle, and all France following its example ; instead...thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then Marched down aguin.' On Calais, too, I could not help thinking that he had bestowed more time than it was worth.... | |
| Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - Slavery - 1838 - 222 pages
...poured forth a volley of oaths — and dispersed, — reminding one of the couplet, "The king of Prance, with forty thousand men, Marched up the hill — and then marched down again." A single fact more, to show the dangerous tendency of mobocracy. Some persons think lightly of disturbances... | |
| 1853 - 1048 pages
...prettily as may be; but there, in my opinion, the merit of the performance ends. "The King of France, with forty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then — marched down again." So much for the arguments of Machaon. I hare reserved his personalities for my AV flections. And what... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - Ethics - 1842 - 320 pages
...hundred thousand men, advanced to the gates of Paris, which I thereupon expected to find given up to him without a struggle, and all France following its...whom it is narrated, that he, ' With forty thousand meD, Marched up the hill, and then Marched down again.' On Calais, too, I could not help thinking that... | |
| United States - 1842 - 620 pages
...hundred thousand men, advanced to the gales of Paris, whicti I thereupon expected to find given up to him without a struggle, and all France following its...certain king of France of whom it is narrated, that he, 1 With forty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then Marched down again.1 On CaUis, too, I could... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - Constitutional law - 1843 - 626 pages
...hundred thousand men, advanced to the gates of Paris, which I thereupon expected to find given up to him without a struggle, and all France following its...thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then Marched dovfi again.' On Calais, too, I could not help thinking that he had bestowed more time than it was... | |
| Henry Brown - Illinois - 1844 - 526 pages
...further with such a body, he followed it to Fort Harrison. In the same manner " The King of France with forty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then marched down again," In November, General Hopkins led another expedition into the Indian country, of twelve hundred men,... | |
| Hugh A. Garland - Biography & Autobiography - 1850 - 336 pages
...procession will only serve to recall to our minds the old battered French gasconade — "The King of France, with forty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then — marched down again." Congress, under the war-excitement, passed in rapid succession, a stamp-act, an excise law, an act,... | |
| Hercules Robinson - Madeira (Madeira Islands) - 1858 - 278 pages
...detestable. I can hardly say I am disappointed, but just feel a little foolish. "When " The King of France, with forty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then— marched down again," he must have looked somewhat like a royal donkey. Friday, August 8th, 18M. Madeira still in sight,... | |
| George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1860 - 766 pages
...the Convocation which is assembled at every new Parliament, to—be dismissed ! " The King of France, with forty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then marched down again ! " The procession would have been imposing, if the Bishops and Clergy had been there. As it was there... | |
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