Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" In short," as our friend expressed himself, " the dragoons and Highlanders divided the honours of the day, and on that occasion, at least, the race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 176
edited by - 1827
Full view - About this book

An Historical Review of the State of Ireland from the Invasion of that ...

Francis Plowden - 1806 - 516 pages
...accurately described by Mr. Hobbs, ^nd so ardently recommended by Mr. Paine ; a state where, indeed, the race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong ; where possession was property, and strength was right ; a state superior to the conditions of society,...
Full view - About this book

The Calumet: New Series of the Harbinger of Peace, Volumes 1-2

William Ladd - 1831 - 890 pages
...fury, to sweep away the vineyard ot the harvest, the peasant's cabin, the shepherd and his flock. Again the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. The Pyrenees and the Alps and the Balean range were f eblc barriers against the children of eternal snows...
Full view - About this book

The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 19

Walter Scott - 1835 - 394 pages
...from the window, I could see the dragoons, whose nerves had never recovered the Canter of Coltbrigg, as that retreat was called, in full rout, pursued...gentlemen, with their grooms." " In short," as our friend expressed himself, " the dragoons and Highlanders divided the honours of the day, and on that occasion,...
Full view - About this book

The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism

Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 386 pages
...from the window, I could see the dragoons, whose nerves had never recovered the Canter of Coltbrigg, as that retreat was called, in full rout, pursued...gentlemen, with their grooms." " In short," as our friend expressed himself, " the dragoons and Highlanders divided the honours of the day, and on that occasion,...
Full view - About this book

The Quarterly review, Volume 36

1827 - 630 pages
...from the window, 1 could see the dragoons, whose nerves had never recovered the Canter of Coltbrigg, as that retreat was called, in full rout, pursued...the day, and on that occasion, at least, the race u-cu to the swift, and the battle to the strong.' The sleepers, thus unpleasantly alarmed, were now...
Full view - About this book

The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...Peter Threipland, and two or three gentlemen, with their grooms." " In short," as our friend expressed himself, " the dragoons and Highlanders divided the...of the day, and on that occasion, at least the race tea* to the swift, and the battle to the strong." The sleepers, thus unpleasantly alarmed, were now...
Full view - About this book

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 pages
...from the window, I could see the dragoons, whose nerves had never recovered the Canter of Coltbrigg, as that retreat was called, in full rout, pursued...gentlemen, with their grooms." " In short," as our friend expressed himself, " the dragoons and Highlanders divided the honours of the day, and on that occasion,...
Full view - About this book

Sermon preached ... after the execution of J.B. Rush, for the murder of ...

William Wayte Andrew - 1849 - 942 pages
...war was no longer in the hands of the Lord — we speak of the bravery of our mighty men, as though the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong. Even our great peace agitators talk of sending a few British troops to beard off a numerous army of...
Full view - About this book

The Stars and Bars: Or, The Reign of Terror in Missouri

Isaac Kelso - 1864 - 346 pages
...we were glorying in our strength, and boasting of our wisdom, wealth, and prosperity. We thought ' the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong ; ' and we had forgotten the divine declaration, ' Righteousness exalteth a nation.' Contemning the...
Full view - About this book

The Sunday teachers' treasury, ed. by W.M. Whittemore

William Meynell Whittemore - 1867 - 594 pages
...and gain His ends by the most unpromising means. The cause of Heaven does not depend upon numbers. If the " race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong," the Church of God would be overwheimed to-morrow. Christianity triumphs "not by might, nor by power," but...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF