 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - 1905 - 378 pages
...understanding than common soldiers." " I had rather have," he said, " a plain, russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows,...nothing else. I honour a gentleman that is so indeed. . . . It may be it provokes some spirits to see such plain men made captains of horse. It had been... | |
 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - 1905 - 376 pages
...understanding than common soldiers." " I had rather have," he said, " a plain, russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than that which you call ' a gentleman,1 and is nothing else. I honour a gentleman that is so indeed. . . . It may be it provokes... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1908 - 746 pages
...than to trace the steps of this man, now Colonel Cromwell. Whatever he says or does has some marks of the vigour of his character — so original, so...determined so many battles. On the 10th of October, hi the skirmish of Winceby, near Horncastle, his career is well nigh ended. His horse was killed at... | |
 | Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - 1907 - 152 pages
...have a plain russetcoated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than what you call a 'gentleman' and is nothing else. I honour a Gentleman that is so indeed." So, while Essex hesitated and debated, Captain Cromwell worked in his own county, doing what he could.... | |
 | Charles Thomas-Stanford - 1910 - 416 pages
...had rather," Cromwell had once written, " have a plain russetcoated Captain that knows what he rights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you...nothing else. I honour a gentleman that is so indeed." a The upper class did not come badly out of the test. Among the new military leaders were Hewson the... | |
 | J. Ellis Barker - 1910 - 398 pages
...follow them, and they will be careful to mount such .... I had rather a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows than...which you call " a gentleman," and is nothing else.' These lines might with advantage be written in golden letters upon the walls of every war office in... | |
 | Cyril Ransome - 1911 - 1122 pages
...orthodox views or social rank. As Cromwell said : ' 1 had rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which yon call a gentleman, and is nothing else. I honour a gentleman that is so indeed.' By the time the... | |
 | Estelle Ross - 1915 - 222 pages
...considerations were far more important. "I had rather," he declared, "have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows,...nothing else. I honour a gentleman that is so indeed. ... It may be it provokes some spirits to see such plain men made captains of horse. It had been well... | |
 | George Alexander Johnston - 1915 - 276 pages
...Cromwell in his letter to Sir William Spring : "I had rather have a, plain russet-coated Captain that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows,...nothing else. I honour a gentleman that is, so indeed " (Carlyle : CromweWs Letters and Speeches, i, 147). dealt with at length, and we mention them again... | |
 | Samuel Rutherford Crockett - 1915 - 350 pages
...gentlemen. " I had rather," said Oliver, " have a plain russetcoated captain that knows what he is fighting for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing more. But I love a gentleman that is a gentleman indeed." And in his Ironside regiments he honoured... | |
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I had rather have a plain russet-coated Captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call "a Gentleman" and is nothing else. I honour a Gentleman that is so indeed! 
