| Zachary Grey - England - 1736 - 450 pages
...Troops are Gentlemens younger Sons, and Perfons of Quality. Do you think that the Spirit of fuch bife and mean Fellows will ever be able to encounter Gentlemen, that have Honour, arjd Courage, and Refolution in them. Truly I prefented him in this manner, confcien* Critical Hiflory... | |
| 1750 - 534 pages
...them ? Truly, I pre-. fented him in this manner conicientioufly, and truly I did tell him, you muñ get Men of a Spirit : And take it not ill what I fay (I know you will noi)'t>fa Spirit that is likely to go on as far as Gentlemen will go, or elie... | |
| John Bancks - 1760 - 330 pages
...gentlemens fons, younger fons, and perfons of quality : and do you think that the fpirit of fuch bafe and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour, and courage, and refolution in them ? You muft get men of a fpirit, and (take it not ill what I . fay) of a fpirit that... | |
| Oliver Cromwell - 1760 - 182 pages
...gentlemen's fons, younger fons, and perfons of quality : and do you think that the fpirit' of fuch. bail. and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour, and courage, and refolution in them ? You muft get merr of a fpirit, and (take it not ill what 1 fay) of a fpirit that... | |
| John Bancks - 1779 - 336 pages
...younger fons, and perfons of quality : and do you think that the fpirit of fuch bafe and mean fellow! will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour, and courage, and refolution in them ? You mud get men of a fpirit, and (take ir not ill wltat I fay) of a fpirit that... | |
| Thomas Fairfax Baron Fairfax - Great Britain - 1786 - 492 pages
...gentlemen's fons, younger fons, and perfons of quality : and do you think that the fpirit of fugh bafe and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen,...honour, and courage, and resolution in them ? You rnuft get men of a fpirit, and (take it not ill what I fay) of a fpirit that is likely to gp on as... | |
| 1901 - 604 pages
...courage in the field could be fought successfully, as he went on to tell Hampden, in one way only : ' You must get men of a spirit, and take it not ' ill what I say — I know you will not — of a spirit that is ' likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go, or else... | |
| James Stanley (7th earl of Derby.) - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1804 - 682 pages
...gentlemen's fan's, younger fons, and perfons of quality : and do you think that the fpirit of fuch bafe and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour, and courage, and refolution in them ? You muft get men of a fpirir, and (take it not ill what I fay) of a fpirit that... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...their troops are gentlemen*! sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. And do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows, will ever be...resolution, in them? You must get men of a spirit, and {take if not ill what l say) of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go, or else l am... | |
| John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...are-gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. And do you think that the spirits of such hase and mean fellows, will ever be able to encounter gentlemen...must get men of a spirit, and (take it not ill what 1 say) of a spirit that is likely to go on as far a» gentlemen will go, or else I am sure you will... | |
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