 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 564 pages
...very distinct voice, ' It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go out of the field with me.'" Baird while the surgeons were dressing his shattered...friends for whose welfare he seemed anxious to offer his last prayers, the power of utterance was lost, and he died in a few minutes without a struggle.... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 622 pages
...expressed how great a satisfaction it was to him to know that they were defeated. " I hope," he said, " the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice." Then addressing colonel Anderson who had been his friend and companion in arms for 21 years, he said... | |
 | John Philippart - Great Britain - 1820 - 512 pages
...He then asked, 'Are the French beaten ?' which he repeated to every one he knew, as they came in. ' I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! — I hope my country will do me justice ! — Anderson, you will see my friends as soon as you can ; tell them — every thing. — Say to... | |
 | David Stewart - Clans - 1822 - 552 pages
...then asked, were the French beaten ?—and which he repeated to every one he knew as they came in. " I hope the people of England will be satisfied ; I hope my country will do me justice. Anderson, you will see my friends as soon as you can. Tell them every thing—Say to my mother ' —Here... | |
 | Robert Southey - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1823 - 844 pages
...expressed how great a satisfaction it was to him to know that they were defeated. " I hope," he said, " the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice." Then, addressing Colonel Anderson, who had been his friend and companion in arms for one-and-twenty... | |
 | 1823 - 496 pages
...expressed how great a satisfaction it was to him to know that they were defeated. 'I hope,' he said, ' the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice.' Then, addressing Colonel Anderson, who had been his friend and companion in arms for oneand twenty... | |
 | Medicine - 1827 - 554 pages
...every point, he said, " it is a great satisfaction to me to know that we have beaten the French."' " 1 hope the people of England will be satisfied, —...friends for whose welfare he seemed anxious to offer his last prayers, the power of utterance was lost, and he died in a few minutes without a struggle.... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - France - 1828 - 674 pages
...an unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, " I hope the people of England will be satisfied! I hope my country will do me justice!" The battle was scarcely ended, when his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the officers... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - France - 1828 - 698 pages
...unsubdued spirit, as if anticipating the baseness of his posthumous calumniators, he exclaimed, " / hope the people of England will be satisfied! I hope my country will do me justice T The battle was scarcely ended, when his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1829 - 394 pages
...waning, and little more than a glimmering Io09. January of ^e remained, he said to Colonel Anderson, " / hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice." After a while, he pressed the hand of Colonel Anderson to his body ; and in a few minutes died without... | |
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I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice! 
