 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 474 pages
...ridiculous expedients: But they felt their imagination fecretly ftruck with the vehement perfuafion, which prevailed in all around them ; and they waited...anxious expectation, not unmixed with horror, for the iffue of thefe extraordinary preparations. As the convoy approached the river, a fally was made by... | |
 | English literature - 1770 - 790 pages
...ridiculous expedients : but they felt their imagination fecretly ftruck witli the vehement perfuafion which prevailed in all around them, and they waited...anxious expectation, not unmixed with horror, for the iffue of thefe extraordinary preparations. As the convoy approached the river, a fiilly wan msde by... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 530 pages
...that the French king was now indeed reduced to a sorry pass when he had recourse to such ridiculous expedients ; but they felt their imagination secretly...the convoy approached the river, a sally was made CHAP. by the garrison on the side of Beausse, to prevent the English general from sending any detachment... | |
 | David Hume - 1818 - 488 pages
...now indeed reduced to a sorry xx- pass when he had recourse to such ridiculous ex1429. "~ pedients ; but they felt their imagination secretly struck with...Beausse, to prevent the English general from sending any de29th April, tachment to the other side : The provisions were peaceably embarked in boats, which the... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 386 pages
...that the French king was now indeed reduced to a sorry pass when he had recourse to such ridiculous expedients: but they felt their imagination secretly...prevailed in all around them; and they waited with anxious expectation, not unmixed with horror, for the issue of these extraordinary preparations. As... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...French king was now indeed reduced to a sorry pass, when he had recourse to such ridiculous expedients. y, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, çarrison on the side of Beausse, to prevent the English general from sending any detachment to the... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Great Britain - 1826 - 318 pages
...English army. The powerful influence of superstition on the minds of the besiegers, became evident. When the convoy approached the river, a sally was made...Beausse, to prevent the English general from sending any detachment to the other side : the provisions were then peaceably embarked in boats, sei.t out by the... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...French king was now indeed reduced to a sorry pass, when he had recourse to suchridicu lous expedients. and fields. garnson on the side of Beausse, to prevent the English general from sending any detachment to the other... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 418 pages
...that the French king was now indeed reduced to a sorry pass when he had recourse to such ridiculous expedients ; but they felt their imagination secretly...river, a sally was made by the garrison on the side of Beauce, to prevent the English general from sending any detachment to the other side [29th April].... | |
 | William Grimshaw - France - 1829 - 314 pages
...confess their sins, and banished from the camp all women of bad fame. As she approached the Loire, a sally was made, by the garrison, on the side of Beausse, (which was the most strongly guarded, by the English) to prevent the besLgers from sending any detachments... | |
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... preparations. As the convoy approached the river, a sally was made by the garrison on the side of Beausse, to prevent the English general from sending any detachment to the other side. The provisions were peaceably embarked in boats, which the inhabitants... 
