 | John Paget - 1861 - 428 pages
...inconsiderable, yet " in war it is always mortifying to undertake " anything that does not succeed ; and 1 own " to you that I did not suppose they would " have..." practicable two months ago was no longer " so at present."1 Shrewsbury, in reply, says : " I never was so " entirely satisfied with the design upon... | |
 | John Paget - Glencoe Massacre, 1692 - 1861 - 422 pages
...undertake 1 Life of Jama, ii. 523. WILLIAM AND SHREWSBURY. 45 " anything that does not succeed ; and 1 own " to you that I did not suppose they would " have..." practicable two months ago was no longer " so at present."1 Shrewsbury, in reply, says : " I never was so " entirely satisfied with the design upon... | |
 | 1868 - 624 pages
...delayed till the 7th or 8th of June; and on the 18th, after the failure, William wrote to Shrewsbury: ' I own to you that I did not suppose they would have...practicable two months ago was no longer so at present.' 'It is certain,' says Oldmixon, 'that he (Talmash) believed himself betrayed, lie knew who were the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1868 - 608 pages
...delayed till the 7th or 8th of June ; and on the 18th, after the failure, William wrote to Shrewsbury : ' I own to you that I did not suppose they would have...practicable two months ago was no longer so at present.' ' It is certain,' says Oldmixon, ' that he (Talmash) believed himself betrayed. He knew who were the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1868 - 608 pages
...delayed till the 7th or 8th of June ; and on the 18th, after the failure, William wrote to Shrewsbury : ' I own to you that I did not suppose they would have...practicable two months ago was no longer so at present.' 'It is certain,' says Oldmixon, 'that he (Talmash) believed himself betrayed. He knew who were the... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 850 pages
...after the failure,, William wrote to Shrewsbury : ' I own to yon that I did not suppose they wonld have made the attempt without having well reconnoitred...preparations for defence ; for what was practicable tim months ago was no longer so at present.' ' It is certain,' says Oldmixon, ' that he (Talmash) believed... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1898 - 488 pages
...distinguish himself induced him to attempt what was impracticable.' Three days before he had said : ' I own to you that I did not suppose they would have...attack, and made active preparations for defence.' Russell, on hearing the news, wrote to Shrewsbury : ' I am very sorrv for poor Talmash; but before... | |
 | Great Britain - 1898 - 472 pages
...attempt what was impracticable.' Three days before he had said : ' I own to you that Tollemache 447 I did not suppose they would have made the attempt...attack, and made active preparations for defence.' Russell, on hearing the news, wrote to Shrewsbury : ' I am very sorrv for poor Talmash; but before... | |
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - Great Britain - 1914 - 604 pages
...the 1 8th of June, a fortnight after the disaster. In it the King expressly says that the French " were long apprised of our intended attack, and made active preparations for defence." That seems to show that any information which Floyd carried back merely justified the alarm which already... | |
 | Marion Ethel Tuckwell Grew, Marion Sharpe Grew - Great Britain - 1924 - 454 pages
...James II. Macpherson, i. 480. Dalrymple, iii. 61-62. 1 William to Shrewsbury, June 18 (28), 1894. " I did not suppose they would have made the attempt...practicable two months ago was no longer so at present." would know her from her coat of arms, and declined to give her name. She was attended by a man dressed... | |
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I own to you that I did not suppose they would have made the attempt without having well reconnoitred the situation of the enemy to receive them ; since they were long apprised of our intended attack, and made active preparations for defence ; for what... 
