 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off; but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me" In that manner Sir John was borne from the fight. During this time the army was rapidly gaining ground.... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 446 pages
...Hardinge attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it ii; I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' And in that manner, to becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight."— NAVIEB, vol. ip 497.]... | |
 | 1836 - 884 pages
...entered the wound. Captain Hardinge attempted to extricate it, but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." And in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. General Paget, conformably... | |
 | Robert Southey - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1828 - 556 pages
...Captain Hardinge began to unbuckle it; but the General said, in his usual tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, " It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Six soldiers of the 42d and the guards bore him. Hardinge, observing his composure, began to hope that... | |
 | Literature - 1848 - 692 pages
...to Hardinge, who attempted to remove his sword, that the dying hero addressed the energetic words, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" to the same gentleman, and to Col. Anderson, Sir John Moore expressed his satisfaction at falling as... | |
 | History - 1811 - 1008 pages
...the 2d, 3d, ant)4tbof Jamury. .,. . Ujijrf buckle it : " It is as well as it is," said he, " cahny : I had rather it should go out of the field -with me." He was so sensible of his approaching dissolution, that he said to the surgeons who offered their assistance,... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...was near (now Sir Henrj Hardinge,) attempted to unbuckle it, but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is, I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. Captain Hardinge in vain... | |
 | T.] [Rodenhurst - 1840 - 142 pages
...sudden pang. Captain Hardinge would have taken off the sword, but the general stopped him, saying, "It is as well as it is : I had rather it should go out of the field with me I " With these words he was borne from the battle. It was a long way to the town, and the torture of... | |
 | sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 534 pages
...had struck upon his wound, causing him a sudden pang wished to remove it. " No, said the general ; it is as well as it is : I had rather it should go out of the field with me !" On his way, calling to mind that Sir David Baird was wounded, he told Captain Hardinge to report... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - France - 1841 - 668 pages
...Captain Hardinge, a staff-officer, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;' and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight." Sir David Baird having... | |
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It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
