 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 300 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. Notwithstanding this... | |
 | Readers - 1866 - 408 pages
...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 t/wfold with me/'— and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.... | |
 | Book - 1867 - 662 pages
...wound. Captain Hardinge attempted to extricate it, but Sir John said calmly, " It is as well where 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 field. 20 ТНК BATTLE OP COnUNNA.... | |
 | Army - 1869 - 614 pages
...wound. Hardinge would have unbuckled the belt, and have taken it off, but the dying soldier said, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Hardinge again began to hope, and to say that he hoped the wound would not prove mortal. " No, Hardinge,"... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1870 - 368 pages
...celebrity in future times, CAPTAIN HABDINGB, attempted to take it off, but the dying hero exclaimed, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go off the field with me." He was carried by the soldiers towards the town ; but though the pain of the... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pages
...Hardinge,3 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 ; " — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. Sir John Hope,... | |
 | William Edward Mullins - 1874 - 80 pages
...wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff-officer, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him : ' 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. When brought to his lodgings... | |
 | Last words - Last words - 1876 - 140 pages
...about to unbuckle his belt in order to remove the weapon; but the General said faintly, " No, Harding, it is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The men shed tears as they bore their dying commander from the field. He dismissed the surgeons who... | |
 | Peninsular veteran - 1878 - 264 pages
...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 tnis time the army was rapidly gaining ground.... | |
 | Herbert R. Clinton - Europe - 1878 - 528 pages
...the wound, but he would not permit Captain (afterwards Viscount) Hardinge to withdraw it, saying, " I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The blanket was laid across several sashes, among them being the sash of Colonel (afterwards General)... | |
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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. 
