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" ... own aggrandizement, involve nations in strife. War is in itself an unmitigated curse. It is indeed the abomination of desolation. It may impose upon the imagination with all its proud pomp and circumstance, and few sights can be conceived of more... "
Notes and Reminiscences of a Staff Officer: Chiefly Relating to the Waterloo ... - Page 199
by Basil Jackson - 1903 - 218 pages
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The London Christian instructor, or, Congregational magazine, Volume 1

1822 - 746 pages
...diseases of the human body. If we turn to observe the carnage of the field of battle, and for a moment listen to the cries of the wounded, and the groans of the dying, or behold garments rolled in blood, and the earth drinking in the purple streams of life, as they flow...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 89

1822 - 880 pages
...nerves, the book containing this wonderful piece was lent out, and I had not the delight of listening to " the cries of the wounded, and the groans of the dying !" Next day, Sunday, we breakfasted later than usual, and the ladies were often reminded to make haste...
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The North British Review, Volume 5

1846 - 580 pages
...broad-sword to death. Add to this, that when the work of deliberate butchery had ceased, no regard was had to the cries of the wounded and the groans of the dying — no surgeon was allowed to apply proper remedies for their recovery, and when any of these were...
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History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena: From the ..., Volume 2

William Forsyth - 1853 - 682 pages
...circumstance, and few sights can be conceived of more thrilling interest than the march of a great arrriy in compact array. But follow that army to the battle-field....the artillery has ceased to thunder, Listen to the 182 CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON. CHAP. XXX. cries of the wounded and the groans of the dying : follow the...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 43

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1854 - 708 pages
...can bo conceived of more thrilling interest ihau the march of a great army in compact array. lîut follow that army to the battle-field. See it after...to the cries of the wounded and the groans of the dving: follow the surgeon, and observe what Л/л mission is when the battle is won, and acres of (ion's...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 43

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1854 - 746 pages
...See it after the shock of conflict, when the'clash of swords is over, and the artillery has roased to thunder. Listen to the cries of the wounded and the groans of the dving: follow the surgeon, and observe what A¿* mission is when the battle is won, and acres of Gon's...
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The Military Surgeon: Journal of the Association of Military ..., Volume 48

1921 - 800 pages
...the soldiers were completely demoralized, because they had to pass an entire night awake, listening to the cries of the wounded and the groans of the dying. We see, therefore, that long before the dawn of modern civilization strategists knew that a well-functioning...
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History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena: From the ..., Volume 3

William Forsyth, Sir Hudson Lowe - 1853 - 552 pages
...and foreign bayonets brought back the King whom she had driven into exile and proclaimed an outlaw. stern judgment upon those who without adequate and...are strewed with corpses and converted into a vast charnel-house. And what sorrow accompanies the tidings of every victory ! The child is fatherless,...
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