 Tis enough to make one thoughtful ; but no matter : my die is cast, they may overwhelm me, but I don't think they will outmanoeuvre me. First, because I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to be ; and secondly, because if what I hear of their...  The Quarterly Review - Page 517edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 566 pages
...Europe. But no matter ; my die is cast — they may overwhelm, but I don't think they will out-manceuvre me. In the first place, I am not afraid of them, as...steady enough, as I hope mine will be, to receive UK-HI with the bayonet. I suspect that all the continental armies were more than half beaten before... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 338 pages
...Europe. But no matter, my die is cast. They may overwhelm, but I do not think they luill out-manceuvre me. In the first place, I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to be; and secondly, if what I hear of their system of mantcievres be true, I think it a false one against troops steady... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 320 pages
...Europe. But no matter, my die is cast. They may overwhelm, but I do not think they will out-manauvre me. In the first place, I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to be ; and secondly, if what I hear of their system of manccuvres be true, I think it a false one against troops steady... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 328 pages
...matter, my die is cast. They may overwhelm, but I do not think they will out-manccuvre me. In the frst place, I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to be ; and secondly, if what I hear of their system of manoeuvres be true, I think it a false one against troops steady... | |
 | 1866 - 586 pages
...conversation : — ' They (the French) have besides, it seems, a new system, which has ont-niancenvred and overwhelmed all the armies of Europe ; but no...them, as everybody else seems to be ; and, secondly, if what I hear of their system of manoeuvring be true, I think it a false one against troops steady... | |
 | 1876 - 612 pages
...my die is cast, they may overwhelm me, but I don't think they will out-manoeuvre me. First, because I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to...system of manoeuvres be true, I think it a false one as against steady troops. I suspect all the continental armies were more than half beaten before the... | |
 | 1876 - 618 pages
...they will out-manoeuvre me. First, because I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to bo ; and secondly, because if what I hear of their system of manoeuvres be true, I think it a false one as against steady troops. I suspect all the continental armies were more than half beaten before the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1884 - 626 pages
...my die is cast, they may overwhelm me, but I don't think they will out-manoeuvre me. First, because I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to...system of manoeuvres be true, I think it a false one as against steady troops. I suspect all the continental armies were more than half beaten before the... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 460 pages
...my die is cast, they may overwhelm me, but I don't think they will outmanoeuvre me. First, because I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to...system of manoeuvres be true, I think it a false one as against steady troops. I suspect all the continental armies were more than half beaten before the... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 628 pages
...my die is cast, they may overwhelm me, but I don't think they will out-manoeuvre me. First, because I am not afraid of them, as everybody else seems to...system of manoeuvres be true, I think it a false one as against steady troops. I suspect all the continental armies were more than half beaten before the... | |
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