Except, perhaps, when with sixty thousand men the king of France marched up a hill and then marched down again. Good-bye, Proud World - Seite 232 von Ellen Olney Kirk - 1903 - 362 Seiten Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
...the same country, to give additional gratification, and I have not unfrequently, like the celebrated King of France, " marched up a hill, and then marched down again," to about as little purpose. But never did I follow the course of a stream, however insignificant, without...