Memoirs of a sergeant, late in the forty-third light infantry regiment ... during the Peninsular war1835 |
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... seemed to possess such passing interest in the eyes of Britain . Their family consisted of six children four boys , and two girls . I was the youngest of the whole , and , for reasons I do not pro- fess to comprehend , was a special ...
... seemed to possess such passing interest in the eyes of Britain . Their family consisted of six children four boys , and two girls . I was the youngest of the whole , and , for reasons I do not pro- fess to comprehend , was a special ...
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... seemed particularly disagreeable to him , and was quite unexpected by myself . I soon put an end to all explanations , by conducting him to head - quarters . But after the battle had ceased , and my spirits became composed , I was ...
... seemed particularly disagreeable to him , and was quite unexpected by myself . I soon put an end to all explanations , by conducting him to head - quarters . But after the battle had ceased , and my spirits became composed , I was ...
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... seemed of value only so far as it could contribute to national honour . Gardens , smiling with the choicest fruits , all but ripe , were cheerfully resigned as the site for erecting batteries . Masses of soldiery were quartered in the ...
... seemed of value only so far as it could contribute to national honour . Gardens , smiling with the choicest fruits , all but ripe , were cheerfully resigned as the site for erecting batteries . Masses of soldiery were quartered in the ...
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... seemed to enter the minds either of my comrades or myself . That this acknowledgment is discreditable to myself , I am sensible ; but since such was the fact , and I am determined to represent things as they really were , -it must not ...
... seemed to enter the minds either of my comrades or myself . That this acknowledgment is discreditable to myself , I am sensible ; but since such was the fact , and I am determined to represent things as they really were , -it must not ...
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... seemed inclined to come forward a second time ; but a bat- tery of six guns being opened upon them , after a few rounds , they retired . During the pursuit in the plain , an officer was observed separating from the main body , and ...
... seemed inclined to come forward a second time ; but a bat- tery of six guns being opened upon them , after a few rounds , they retired . During the pursuit in the plain , an officer was observed separating from the main body , and ...
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Page 267 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 241 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 223 - And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Page 200 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 260 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross ; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Page 189 - So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord : but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.
Page 243 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 258 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it. and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name.
Page 190 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 193 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.