 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 588 pages
...troops are, most of them, decayed serving men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and the King's troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. Do you think, that the spirit of such base and mean fellows will be ever able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 580 pages
...troops are, most of them, decayed serving men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and the King's troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. Do you think, that the spirit of such base and mean fellows will be ever able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - 1850 - 544 pages
...spirit that would do something in the work. This is very true that I tell you ; God knows I lie not.2 " Your troops," said I, " are most of them " old decayed...sons, younger sons and persons of quality : do you 1 enterprise. * A notable clause of a sentence, this latter too ;'physiognomic enough ; — and perhaps... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1852 - 376 pages
...of adequate support from those who ought to aid him, and says to Hampden, yet living, " Your troops 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 ; do you think that the spirits... | |
 | 1853 - 860 pages
...before or since. " How can we be otherwise than beaten ?" said he to Hampden. " Your troops are many of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and theirs are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. But I will remedy that. I will raise... | |
 | François Guizot - 1854 - 624 pages
...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...of quality : do you think that the spirits of such mean and base fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour, and courage, and... | |
 | François Guizot - 1854 - 654 pages
...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...of quality : do you think that the spirits of such mean and base fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour, and courage, and... | |
 | François Guizot - 1854 - 500 pages
...do something in the work. ^This is very true that I tell you ; God knows I lie not. 'Your troops,7 said I, 'are most of them old decayed serving-men...of quality : do you think that the spirits of such mean and base fellows wi]l ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honor, and courage, and resolution... | |
 | François Pierre G. Guizot - 1854 - 520 pages
...one day on this inferiority of their troops: "How can it be otherwise?" said Cromwell ; " our troops are most of them old decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 600 pages
...parliamentary armies in the end victorious. ' Your troops,' said he to Hambden, according to his own account, " are most of them old decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; the king's forces are composed of gentlemen's vounger sons, and persons of good quality : and do... | |
| |
are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to... 
