 | Robert Chambers - 1827 - 334 páginas
...fathom-deep healths to the prince who, in their own language, " could eat a dry crust, sleep on peas-straw, take his dinner in four minutes, and win a battle in five ; " s whilst the ladies busied themselves in procuring locks of his hair, miniature portaits of his... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 672 páginas
...Glasgow, at once the richest and the least friendly to his cause, an extraordinary payment of 5,000/. was imposed. The late public authorities either fled...take his dinner in four minutes, and win "a battle in five!"t Meanwhile this idol of their affections was exercising at Holyrood all the attributes of sovereignty,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 páginas
...Glasgow, at once the richest and the least friendly to his cause, an extraordinary payment of 5000|. was imposed. The late public authorities .either fled to England or skulked in privacy, while the Jacohites, throwing off the mask, took no pains to dissemble their rapturous joy, and loudly vaunted... | |
 | Karl Ludwig Klose - 1845 - 490 páginas
...their joy, and loudly boasted of their young hero, who " could eat a dry crust, and sleep on pea-straw, take his dinner in four minutes, and win a battle in five." Nor did the prince omit anything that was likely to keep alive the enthusiasm of his adherents, or... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 344 páginas
...in the words of one of their own convivial sentiments, " could eat a dry crust, sleep on peas-straw, take his dinner in four minutes, and win a battle in five." It was only three hours after the victory, that the Camerons re-entered Edinburgh to the exhilarating... | |
 | LORD MAHON - 1851 - 210 páginas
...Glasgow, at once the richest and the least friendly to his cause, an extraordinary payment of 5000/. was imposed. The late public authorities either fled...a battle " in five!"* Meanwhile this idol of their affections was exercising at Holyrood all the attributes of sovereignty, and making every exertion... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 458 páginas
...Glasgow, at once the richest and the least friendly to his cause, an extraordinary payment of 5000/. was imposed. The late public authorities either fled...a battle "in five!"* Meanwhile this idol of their affections was exercising at Holyrood all the attributes of sovereignty, and making" every exertion... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 634 páginas
...Glasgow, at once the richest and the least friendly to his cause, an extraordinary payment of 50001. was imposed. The late public authorities either fled...at the time, " could eat a dry crust, and sleep on pease-straw, " take his dinner in four minutes, and win a battle " in five !"f Meanwhile this idol... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 470 páginas
...who, according to their own phrase at the time , " could eat a dry "crust, and sleep on pease-straw, take his dinner in four " minutes, and win a battle in five ! " ** Meanwhile this idol of their affections was exercising at Holyrood all the attributes of sovereignty, and making every exertion... | |
 | 1885 - 720 páginas
...Scotland, twenty-eight years afterwards. It was said of him that " he could eat a dry crust. Bleep upon straw, take his dinner in four minutes, and win a battle in five." fact that he had ridden from Innsbruck with an order to the Governor of Trent, instructing him to stop... | |
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Eighth," while the public money was levied for his service. On the city of Glasgow, at once the richest and the least friendly to his cause, an extraordinary payment of 5000/. was imposed. The late public authorities either fled to England, or skulked... 
