 And now, to that same spot in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending ; till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties cotne into actual juxta-position ; and thirty stands fronting...  Advocate of Peace - Page 1311834Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1907 - 822 pages
...men have taken Carlyle and read how he describes the artisans of Britain and France: "Thirty stand fronting thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway...brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the devil... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1907 - 930 pages
...men have taken Carlyle and read how he describes the artisans of Britain and France: "Thirty stand fronting thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway...brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the devil... | |
 | Grace Norton - 1908 - 258 pages
...French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending; till, at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxta-position ; and Thirty stands fronting...useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses. . . . Had these men any quarrel? . . . Not the smallest! . . . There was even, unconsciously, by Commerce,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1908 - 352 pages
...French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending : till at ' length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into ' actual juxtaposition ; and Thirty stands fronting...with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word ' " Fire 1 " is given : and they blow the souls out of one ' another ; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen,... | |
 | Newton M. Mann - 1910 - 366 pages
...French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending; till at length after infinite effort the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting...the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entires! strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual... | |
 | George Ross Kirkpatrick - 1910 - 398 pages
...the two parties come into actual juxtaposition, and thirty stand facing thirty, each with his gun in hand. Straightway the word 'Fire!' is given, and they blow the souls out of one another; and in the place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury,... | |
 | Lucile Gulliver - 1912 - 332 pages
...French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending ; till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition, and Thirty stands fronting...world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, © Underwood & Underwood SUPPLIES FOR USE IN THE BOER WAR Tons of oats purchased by the British government... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1913 - 548 pages
...CHAPTER XI THE CRIMEAN WAR— (Concluded), 1855 'At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition ; and Thirty stands fronting...brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel T Busy as the Devil... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1913 - 544 pages
...Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word " Fire I " is given : and they blow the sonla out of one another ; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1913 - 544 pages
...of one another ; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel T Busy as the Devil is. not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers... | |
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