| Edward Latham - 1906 - 338 Seiten
...election of a new parliament which met at Oxford, 2ist March, 1681. (Hume, Hist, of Engl.) Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. DUKE OF WELLINGTON (17691852) — in a despatch of 1815. Emerson, in his essay on Quotation and Originality,... | |
| Arthur Hornblow - 1907 - 490 Seiten
...free. As the Duke of Wellington wrote to his government after his victory at Waterloo: ' Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.' We have no desire to cheer over our triumph. Your verdict will not give back to my client the happiness... | |
| Joseph Benjamin Polley - 1908 - 366 Seiten
...hundred and thirty, thirty of whom were killed outright, or died of their wounds. " Nothing, except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won," some writer lias said. At sun-up two hundred and seven strong men stand in line of battle ; half an... | |
| Lieu Tisdale - 1908 - 336 Seiten
...that was left of Spain's wreckage. Surely Wellington was a Solomon when he wrote : "Nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won." CHAPTER XXIII UNCLE SAM DRAWS A PRIZE SHORT RATIONSSPIKING GUNS— AGUINALDO UNCLE SAM knows a prize... | |
| Maude Morrison Frank - 1909 - 178 Seiten
...misfortune for a man, and that is to know that he has been at fault. —LA BRUYERE. 3. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. 4. God bless the King!—I mean, the Faith's defender; God bless—no harm in blessing—the Pretender!... | |
| Edward Archibald Allen - 1909 - 184 Seiten
...out of the town. 2. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. 3. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. 4. But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. 5. Leave writing... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1909 - 328 Seiten
...only question is which of the combatants suffers most? "Nothing," said the Duke of Wellington, "except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won." Nothing is so ruinous to a country as a successful war, excepting, of course, one that is unsuccessful.... | |
| 1910 - 702 Seiten
..."Rising Empire." Chase, Zephaniah — Private in Capt. Nathan Smith's company in 1776. "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." — Duke of Wellington. THE CHASE-CHACE FAMILY IN 1790 (Continued from page 20 of April number.) HEADS... | |
| William Leighton Grane - 1912 - 304 Seiten
...well how our " Iron Duke," on the morrow of his greatest victory, came to declare : " Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." And they very likely share the recorded opinion of Nelson, that " nations, like individuals, are to... | |
| Wayland Fuller Dunaway - 1913 - 144 Seiten
...instantaneous. Although the crime was mortal, the scene was painfully sad. CHAPTER VIII Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. —WELLINGTON. I DID not serve long as the adjutant of the 47th regiment. In March, 1863, Company I... | |
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