...strong man," adds another observer ; " in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hopo shone in him like a pillar of fire when it had gone out in all the others." [COMMONWEALTH.] Cariale, Cromwell's Letten and Sprecht»; Noble, Hauw of CromutU : Gardiner,...

...XIV THE BATTLE OF CALATAFIMI ' In the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope shona In him like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others.' — CARLYLE'S Cromwell, iii. 3o. THE news of the landing at Marsala passed like the wind...

...p. clxx viii. (Cesana'a first-hand evidence). CHAPTER XIV THE BATTLE OF CALATAFIMI • In the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope...like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others.' — CARLYLE'S Cromwell, iii. 30. THE news of the landing at Marsala passed like the wind...

...business of the hour. " He was a strong man," so intimates Charles Harvey, who knew him: "in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope...like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others." A genuine King among men, Mr. Harvey. The divinest sight this world sees, — when it...

...fortitude that has few parallels. At every crisis, as was said of a greater man in a greater connection, "hope shone in him like a pillar of fire when it had gone out of all the others." There was one such occasion when it seemed that the difficulties were finally insurmountable....

...no help ? " I believe I am right in saying that in that dark hour King Albert stood almost alone. " Hope shone in him like a pillar of fire when it had gone out of all others." He resisted the appeal of his ministers to surrender. But still the English did not...

...flaming ardor of combativity which illuminated the darkest circumstances ; so that it was said that "Hope shone in him like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all other men." No one understood better than he the axiom that it is not the actual loss of men in battle...

...Iv. p. clxxvill. (Cesana's first-hand evidence). CHAPTER XIV THE BATTLE OF CALATAFIMI ' In the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope shone la him like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others.' — CARLYLB'I Cromwell, iii....

...paraphrasing Charles Harvey, puts the same point more poetically: "He was a strong man in the dark perils of war: in the high places of the field hope...like a pillar of fire when it had gone out in all the others".* In the turmoil of the Great Rebellion such a leader of men was bound to come to the front,...

...Carlyle's words concerning Cromwell may be applied: "In the dark perils of war, in the high places in the field, hope shone in him like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others." Brown stands for conscience, as Garibaldi stands for fire, but in a measure one partakes...