 | 1861 - 1050 pages
...and therefore I wish no subject to spare his purse towards it." — " God hath stirred up this action to be a school to breed up soldiers to defend the...such that we are already weary ; yet this journey is nought in respect to the misery and hardship that soldiers must and do endure." " There can be no doubt,"... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1861 - 562 pages
...communications with Walsingham and other statesmen. "God hath stirred up this action," he repeated again, "to bo a school to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom...misery and hardship that soldiers must and do endure." J He was right in his estimate of the effect likely to be produced by the war upon the military habits... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1863 - 564 pages
...for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, " to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...brought into a most dangerous estate, if it should bo attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from the New World,... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - 636 pages
...for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, " to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...most dangerous estate, if it should be attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from the New World, whither he had... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1867 - 428 pages
...for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, " to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate, if it shoald be attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from the New... | |
 | Philip Smith - Great Britain - 1868 - 394 pages
...training for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, "to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...most dangerous estate, if it should be attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from the New World, whither he had... | |
 | Philip Smith - Great Britain - 1873 - 408 pages
...for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, " to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...most dangerous estate, if it should be attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from tho New World, whither ho had... | |
 | Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - Military art and science - 1876 - 932 pages
...the effect of "our long quietness," and say that " God had stirred up the war in the Low Countries, to be a school, to " breed up soldiers to defend the...these long times of peace and quietness, is brought to a most " dangerous state." Indeed, things were looking very bad on land in England. On the 8th August,... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1888 - 1150 pages
...progress-journey, what this long peace hath wrought in us. We are weary of the war before we come where it groweth, such a danger hath this long peace brought...misery and hardship that soldiers must and do endure." 3 He was right in his estimate of the effect likely to be produced by the war upon the military habits... | |
 | Ernest Marsh Lloyd - Infantry - 1908 - 326 pages
...patient veterans."2 The war in the Low Countries was indeed, as some one wrote to Walsingham in 1585, " a school to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England, which through these long times 1 Monk, p. 22. 2 Motley, iv. 520. of peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate if... | |
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God hath stirred up this action," he repeated again, "to be a school to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England, which through these long times of peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate, if it should be attempted. Our delicacy... 
