 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 1252 páginas
...themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...threatened to charge the advancing line. Nothing could * Ante, vii. 375. stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst CHAP. of undisciplined valour, no... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1846 - 772 páginas
...themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice, their lives to gain time and .«pace for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...threatened to charge the advancing line. Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No Buddcn burst of undisciplined valour: no nervous enthusiasm weakened... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 500 páginas
...themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open ~~ out on such a fair field; in vain did the mass itself...striving, fire indiscriminately on friends and foes; while horsemen, hovering on the flank, threatened to charge our advancing line. Nothing could stop that astonishing... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1846 - 396 páginas
...extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen, hovering on the flank, threatened to charge the advancing... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1846 - 400 páginas
...extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen, hovering on the flank, threatened to charge the advancing... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1846 - 738 páginas
...themselves from the erowded column, saerifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and, fiercely striving, fire indiseriminately on friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the flanks, threatened to charge... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1850 - 474 páginas
...extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen, hovering ou the flank, threatened 'to charge the advancing... | |
 | Henry Schroder - 1851 - 460 páginas
...veterans sacrifice their VOL. i. BB lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a lair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely...threatened to charge the advancing line. Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm, weakened... | |
 | 1852 - 1236 páginas
...veterans break from the crowded columns and sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field • in vain did the mass itself...bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon Line, at the crisis of Albuera. friends ond foes, while the horsemen hovering on the (lank, threatened... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1852 - 570 páginas
...veterans, breaking from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...bear up, and fiercely striving fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the flank threatened to charge the advancing... | |
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In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass... 
