| Religion - 1855 - 424 pages
...million ; in all the wars consequent upon the French Revolution, no less than 9,000,000 ! and beauty, "has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perish, a very small part ever feel the stroke of an enemy. The rest languish in... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...glory, smile in death ! The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War lias means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...the joys of conquest, and, filled with England's glory, smile in death ! The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means...than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...the joys of conquest, and, filled with England's glory, smile in death! The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means...than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part erer felt... | |
| English literature - 1859 - 578 pages
...century has remained in a great degree true in our own. ' The life of a modern soldier is ill-represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more...than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten tnousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt... | |
| India - 1859 - 598 pages
...same idea is more graphically expressed by Johnson. " The life of a modern soldier is illrepresented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more...than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke... | |
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