 | Charles James - 1805 - 1236 pages
...Hampshire Militia, ipeaks thus of a military life, even within the limited sphere of that establishment* " My principal obligation to the militia was, the making...not been shaken in this various scene of new faces * See Preface to Plutarch's Lives, by tbe two Langhornes. and wi ** fneoda ; had not experience forced... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...time I was ready, at any hour of the day or night, to fly from quarters to London, from London tt> quarters, on the slightest call of private or regimental...reserved temper, I should long have continued a stranger to my native country, had I not been shaken in this various scene of new faces and new friends : had... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...battalion instead of a pack ; and at that time I was ready, at any hour of the day or night, to fly from quarters to London, from London to quarters,...reserved temper, I should long have continued a stranger to my native country, had I not been shaken in this various scene of new faces and new friends ; had... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...battalion instead of a pack ; and at that time I was ready, at any hour of the day or night, to fly from quarters to London, from London to quarters,...reserved temper, I should long have continued a stranger to my native country, had I not been shaken in this various scene of new faces and new friend's ; had... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...battalion, instead of a pack ; and at that time I was ready at any hour of the day or night, to fly from quarters to London, from London to quarters,...business. But my principal obligation to the militia, was .the_analdng_me an Englishman and ji soldier. After my foreign education, with my reserved temper,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...battalion, instead of a pack ; and at that time I was ready, at any hour of the day or night, to fly from quarters to London, from London to quarters,...reserved temper, I should long have continued a stranger to my native country, had I not been shaken in this various scene of new faces and new friends ; had... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...battalion, instead of a pack ; and at that time I was ready, at any hour of the day or night, to fly from quarters to London, from London to quarters, on the slightest call of f private or regimental business. But my principal obligation to the militia, was the making me an... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...battalion, instead of a pack ; and at that time I was ready, at any hour of the day or night, to fly from quarters to London, from London to quarters,...reserved temper, I should long have continued a stranger to my native country, had I not been shaken in this various scene of new faces and new friends; had... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...battalion, instead of a pack ; and at that time I was ready, at any hour of the day or night, to fly from quarters to London, from London to quarters,...reserved temper, I should long have continued a stranger to my native country, had I not been shaken in this various scene of new faces and new friends; had... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1853 - 792 pages
...historian, was Captain of a company in a military regiment, and writes thus in reference to the fact : " My principal obligation to the militia was the making me an Englishman and a soldier. In this peaceful service, I imbibed the rudiments of the language and science of tactics, which opened... | |
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The habits of a sedentary life were usefully broken by the duties of an active profession: in the healthful exercise of the field I hunted with a battalion, instead of a pack; and at that time I was ready, at any hour of the day or night, to fly from... 
