Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal

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H. Colburn, 1866
 

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עמוד 346 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night...
עמוד 344 - ... unless he had laid his hand upon them; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal, having his arms blazoned thereon, and a helmet of parchment, which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron; and his shield was hung round his neck, and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand, and they raised his arm, and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword.
עמוד 346 - Campeador remembered his country in that great danger ; for the night before the battle was fought at the Navas de Tolosa, in the dead of the night, a mighty sound was heard in the whole city of Leon, as if it were the tramp of a great army passing through ; and it passed on to the royal monastery of St.
עמוד 350 - ... even more disgraced by that outrage, than Rome was by the factious accusations which demagogues brought against Scipio, but which he proudly repelled on the day of trial, by reminding the assembled people that it was the anniversary of the battle of Zama. Happily, a wiser and a better spirit has now for years pervaded all classes of our community; and we shall be spared the ignominy of having worked out to the end the parallel of national ingratitude. Scipio died a voluntary exile from the malevolent...
עמוד 350 - ... limited to their military characters and exploits. Scipio, like Wellington, became an important leader of the aristocratic party among his countrymen, and was exposed to the unmeasured invectives of the violent section of his political antagonists. When, early in the last reign, an infuriated mob assaulted the Duke of Wellington in the streets of the English capital on the anniversary of Waterloo, England was even more disgraced by that outrage, than Rome was by the factious accusations which...
עמוד 351 - Nature. Thy calm mien Recalls old Rome, as much as thy high deed; Duty thine only idol, and serene When all are troubled; in the utmost need Prescient; thy country's servant ever seen, Yet sovereign of thyself, whate'er may speed.
עמוד 274 - British certificates of registry ; and 238 to have been foreign ships. Of the remaining 84 ships the country and employment are unknown. Of the British ships, 1,198 were employed in the British...
עמוד 343 - ... and his countenance as it was wont to be, and the eyes open, and his long beard in order, so that there was not a man who would have thought him dead if he had seen him and not known it. And on the second day after he had departed, Gil Diaz placed the body upon a right noble saddle, and this saddle with the body upon, it he put upon a frame; and he dressed the body in a gambax of fine sendal, next the skin.
עמוד 158 - MEMOIRS OF JANE CAMERON, FEMALE CONVICT. By a Prison Matron, Author of " Female Life in Prison." 2 vols. 21s. " This narrative, as we can well believe, is truthful in every important particular — a faithful chronicle of a woman's fall and rescue.
עמוד 604 - Eldon's humorous answers to applications for preferment should be remembered his letter to Dr. Fisher of the Charterhouse : on one side of a sheet of paper, " Dear Fisher, I cannot, to-day, give you the preferment for which you ask. — I remain your sincere friend, ELDON. — Turn over;" and on the other side, "I gave it to you yesterday.

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