 | William Coxe - 1819 - 734 pages
...without any symptom of exultation, announces the result of this desperate and sanguinary conflict. " I am so tired that I have but strength enough to tell...now in our power to have what peace we please, and I may be pretty well assured of never being in another battle ; but that nor nothing in this world can... | |
 | Sarah Churchill (duchess of Marlborough.) - 1838 - 474 pages
...engage, may depend upon the good or bad success, yet your uneasiness gives me much greater trouble. I am so tired that I have but strength enough to tell...now in our power to have what peace we please, and I may be pretty well assured of never being in another battle ; but nothing in this world can make me... | |
 | Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough - 1838 - 474 pages
...engage, may depend upon the good or bad success, yet your uneasiness gives me much greater trouble. I am so tired that I have but strength enough to tell...now in our power to have what peace we please, and I may be pretty well assured of never being in another battle ; but nothing in this world can make me... | |
 | Sarah Jennings Churchill Duchess of Marlborough - 1838 - 512 pages
...blessed us with a victory ; we having first beaten their foot and then their horse. If Holland pleases, it is now in our power to have what peace we please, and I have the happiness of being pretty well assured that this is the last battle I shall be in, so that... | |
 | Sarah Churchill (duchess of Marlborough.) - 1838 - 520 pages
...blessed us with a victory ; we having first heaten their foot and then their horse. If Holland pleases, it is now in our power to have what peace we please, and I have the happiness of being pretty well assured that this is the last battle I shall be in, so that... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1839 - 406 pages
...had of those won at Blenheim, Ramillies, and Oudenard. One of these notes was to the duchess : — " I am so tired that I have but strength enough to tell...this world can make me happy if you are not kind." The other note was addressad to the lord treasurer : — "The English post of the 26th is come, but... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1839 - 410 pages
...pleased us with a victory ; we have first beat their foot and then their horse. If the Dutch please, it is now in our power to have what peace we please, and I have the happiness of being pretty well assured that this is the last battle I shall be in ; so that... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 416 pages
...between two and three o'clock yesterday, in the afternoon, but * * * only cannonaded each other. " I am so tired, that I have but strength enough to...now in our power to have what peace we please, and I may be pretty well assured of never being in another battle : but nothing in this world can make me... | |
 | William Coxe, John Wade - 1848 - 516 pages
...without any symptom of exultation, announces the result of this desperate and sanguinary conflict. " I am so tired that I have but strength enough to tell...now in our power to have what peace we please, and I may be pretty well assured of never being in another battle; but that nor nothing in this world can... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - 1862 - 302 pages
...Lord Townshend, he says, " We have so beaten the French, that I beg " you will tell the Pensioner that it is now in our power to have what " peace we please." Ouly a few guns (about fourtcen) were taken, and about twenty-five colours, but amongst them " la cornette... | |
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I am so tired that I have but strength enough to tell you that we have had this day a very bloody battle ; the first part of the day we beat their foot, and afterwards their horse. God Almighty be praised, it is now in our power to have what peace we... 
