 I have for these last ten days been so troubled by the many disappointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer, it would make an end of me. In short I am weary of my life.  The Quarterly Review - Seite 34herausgegeben von - 1820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Coxe, John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - 1818 - 642 Seiten
...have for these last ten days been so troubled by the many disappointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer, it would make an end of me. In short I am weary of my life."* On the 17th of June at midnight, the allied army decamped from Elft,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 Seiten
...want of all means for executing his own intentions, made him determine upon marching to the Mouse. The many disappointments which he had endured, he...doubled in his Memoirs the number of Marlborough's army, asserting that it contained German auxiliaries of all the provinces, commanded by their princes in... | |
 | 1820 - 632 Seiten
...the Meuse. The many disappointments which he liad endured, he said, made him weary of his life, and 1 think, he adds, that if it were possible to vex me...French writers than this. Villars, with a gasconading style,)(tad a disregard to trutH which would be dishonourable to any one, and especially to a general... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 432 Seiten
...have for these last ten days been so troubled by the many disappointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer, it would make an end of me. In short I am weary of my life." * * For the account of the military operations on the Moselle, and... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1839 - 406 Seiten
...sensible part in which we might do the most hurt to France." " I think," said he in another letter, " that if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer, it would make an end of me." Shortly after he says — " I am sure you are so just and kind to me as to believe that, during this... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1839 - 410 Seiten
...sensible part in which we might do the most hurt to France." " I think," said he in another letter, " that if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer, it would make an end of me." Shortly after he says — " I am sure you are so just and kind to me as to believe that, during this... | |
 | William Coxe - 1847 - 540 Seiten
...have for these last ten days been so troubled by the many disap. pointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer, it would make an end of me. In short, I am weary of my life."* * For the account of the military operations on the Moselle, and... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 536 Seiten
...have for these last ten days been so troubled by the many disappointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer, it would make an end of me. In short, I am weary of my life." JA vigorous resolution roused Marlborough out of this despondency.... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1870 - 648 Seiten
...have for these last ten days been so troubled by the many disappointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer it would make an end of me. In short I am weary of my life." And again CHAP. on the 24th : " 1 beg you will give my humble duty... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1872 - 352 Seiten
...have for these last ten days been so troubled by the many disappointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer it would make an end of me. In short I am weary of my life." And again on the 24th : " I beg you will give my humble duty to the... | |
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