 They would not then, if they were trusted with fair and hopeful armies, suffer them for want of just and wise discipline to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft...  Select British Classics - Page 831803Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1747 - 240 pages
...Feathers, tho' they be never fo oft fupply'd : they would not fuffer their empty and unrecruitible Colonels of twenty Men in a Company, to quaff out, or convey into fecret Hoards, the Wages of a cielufive Lift and a miferable Remnant i yet in the mean while to be... | |
 | 1767 - 352 pages
...though they be " never fo oft fupplied : They would not luffer E 6 " their 84 1T>t CONNOISSEUR. NMO. " their empty and unrecruitable colonels of " twenty men in a company, to quaff out, or " convey into fecret hoards, the wages of a de" lufive lift and a miferable remnant ; yet in the " mean while to... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...feathers, though they be never fo oft fupplied: .they would not fufFer their empty and unrecruitible colonels of twenty men in a company, to quaff out, or convey into fecret hoards, the wages of a delufive lift and a miferable remnant: yet in the mean while to be overmaftered... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...from about them like fick feathers., though they be never fo oft fup plied ; they would not fuffer their empty and unrecruitable colonels of twenty men in a company, to quaff out, or convey into fecret hoards, the wages of a delufive lift, and a miferable remnant; yet in the mean while to be overmaftered... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 614 pages
...though they be never so often supplied ; they would not suffer their empty and unrecrutible colonells of twenty men in a company, to quaff out or convey...delusive list, and a miserable remnant ; yet, in the meanwhile to be overmaster'd with a score or two of drunkards, the only souldiery left about them,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 294 pages
...feathers, though they be never so oft supplied: they would not suffer their empty and unrequitable colonels of twenty men in a company, to quaff out,...into secret hoards, the wages of a delusive list and miserable remnant; yet in the mean while to be over-mastered with a score or two of drunkards, the... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 854 pages
...just and wise discipline, to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft supplied : they would not suffer their empty and unrecruitable...of twenty men in a company, to quaff out, or convey in to secret hoards, the wages of a delusive list and miserable remnant ; yet, in the meanwhile to... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 414 pages
...hough they be never so oft suppl.ed : they would not sufter ,eir empty and unrequitable colonels oi twenty men in a company, to quaff out, or convey into secret hoards, the wages of a delusive list and miserable remnant; yet in the meanwhile to be oier-mastered with a score or two of drunkards, the only... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...just and wise discipline, to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft supplied; they would not suffer their empty and unrecruitable...wages of a delusive list, and a miserable remnant ;(31) yet in the meanwhile to be overmastered with a score or two of drunkards, the only soldiery left... | |
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pages
...feathers, though they be never so oft supplied ; they would not sutler their empty and unrequitable colonels of twenty men in a company to quaff out or...into secret hoards the wages of a delusive list and miserable remnant ; yet in the meanwhile to be overmastered with a score or two of drunkards, the only... | |
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