| Joseph Stock (bp. of Waterford.) - 1800 - 196 pages
...adjoining to the The French, it is well known, are a nation apt enough to confider themfelves as v fuperior to any people in the world : but here indeed it would...ridiculous not to prefer the Gallic troops in every -refpedl before their new allies. Intelligence, activity, temperance^ patience, to a furprifing degree,... | |
| James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...affairs had constrained him to act. The candid writer thus describes the little army of invaders. " Intelligence, activity, temperance, " patience, to...that came over ** with Humbert, together with the exactest " obedience to discipline. Yet, if you except " the grenadiers, they had nothing to catch... | |
| James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 512 pages
...affairs had constrained him to act. The candid writer thus describes the little army of invaders. " Intelligence, activity, temperance, " patience, to...that came over •" with Humbert, together with the exactest " obedience to discipline. Yet, if you except ; " the grenadiers, they had nothing to catch... | |
| James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 510 pages
...invaders. " Intelligence, activity, temperance, :" patience, to a surprising degree, appeared to "he combined in the soldiery that came over .".with Humbert, together with the exactest " obedience to discipline. Yet, if you except ." the grenadiers, they had nothing to catch... | |
| Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 516 pages
...virtues of an enemy. The unbiassed writer thus describes the little army of invaders:....Intelligence, activity, temperance, patience, to a surprising degree, appeared to be combined in the sqldiery that came over with Humbert, together with the exactest obedience to discipline : yet, if... | |
| Ireland - 1809 - 644 pages
...charges ' upon ravens.' " The Frenchi it is well known, are a nation ready enough to consider themselves superior to any people in the world; but here indeed...surprising degree, appeared to be combined in the soldi^jy that came over with Humbert, together with the exaetest obedience to discipline. Yet if you... | |
| William Henry Bartlett - Engraving - 1844 - 312 pages
...only that shows the monster in its proper and full deformity." Intelligence, activity, temperance, and patience, to a surprising degree, appeared to be combined...soldiery that came over with Humbert, together with the exactest obedience to discipline. Yet, if you except the grenadiers, they had nothing to catch the... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - Autonomy and independence movements - 1845 - 576 pages
...Fraternity, "HUMBERT, GEN." * " Lieutenant-General Kilmaine did not arrive with the French troops." " Intelligence, activity, temperance, patience, to a...soldiery that came over with Humbert, together with the exactest obedience to discipline. Yet, if you except the grenadiers, they had nothing to catch the... | |
| Henry Martyn Field - History - 1851 - 404 pages
...be by him, furnishes minute and most interesting details of the officers M and soldiers. He says, " Intelligence, activity, temperance, patience, to a...soldiery that came over with Humbert ; together with the exactest obedience to discipline. Yet, if you except the grenadiers, they had nothing to catch the... | |
| Henry Martyn Field - Ireland - 1851 - 392 pages
...be by him, furnishes minute and most interesting details of the officers M and soldiers. He says, " Intelligence, activity, temperance, patience, to a...soldiery that came over with Humbert; together with the exactest obedience to discipline. Yet, if you except the grenadiers, they had nothing to catch the... | |
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