 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 500 Seiten
...repaid by his sense of its value and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy...The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 Seiten
...him to have felt, as well as acted, up to the occasion. ' " Believe me," he Afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy...The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expense of the lives of so... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 488 Seiten
...repaid by his sense of its value and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy...The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives... | |
 | 1816 - 658 Seiten
...him to have felt, as well as acted, up to the occasion. ' " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy...The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil; but, to win such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expense of the lives of so... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1816 - 528 Seiten
...repaid by his sense of. its value and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy...The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives... | |
 | 1816 - 1052 Seiten
...repaid by his sense of its value and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy...The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even »ucb a battle as this of Waterloo, at 'the exprnce of the lives... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1816 - 294 Seiten
...repaid by his sense of its value and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The braven f my troops has hitherto saved me from that great evil; but, l« win even such a battle as this... | |
 | 1821 - 388 Seiten
...the full assurance of victory could not remove bis sorrow: " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy...The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but to win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 588 Seiten
...repaid by his sense of its value, and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy...The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expense of the lives... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 538 Seiten
...repaid by his sense of its value, and sorrow for their loss. " Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy...The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expense of the lives... | |
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Believe me, nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won... 
