 | Alfred Hawkins - Quebec (City) - 1834 - 548 pages
...has been well observed, that " a death more glorious and attended with circumstances more picturesque and interesting, is no where to be found in the annals...Our country has lost a sure support, and a perpetual honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased QUEHEC in his death, it would... | |
 | Alfred Hawkins, John Charlton Fisher - Québec (Québec) - 1834 - 534 pages
...has been well observed, that "a death more glorious and attended with circumstances more picturesque and interesting, is no where to be found in the annals...Our country has lost a sure support, and a perpetual honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased QUEBEC in his death, it would... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Bermuda Islands - 1840 - 388 pages
...respecting his heroic friend, whose fate threw so affecting a lustre on this memorable victory : " I am not ashamed to own to you, that my heart does...the midst of this success. I have lost but a friend hi General Wolfe ; our country has lost a sure support and a perpetual honour. If the world were sensible... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Bermuda Islands - 1840 - 320 pages
...respecting his heroic friend, whose fate threw so affecting a lustre on this memorable victory : " I am not ashamed to own to you, that my heart does not exult hi the midst of this success, I have lost but a friend fn General Wolfe; our country has lost a sure... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...illustrate the sentiment of his officers and men. In a letter written just after the battle, he says, " I am not ashamed to own to you that my heart does...Our country has lost a sure support and a perpetual honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased Quebec in his death, it would... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...illustrate the sentiment of his officers and men. In a letter written just after the battle, he says, " I am not ashamed to own to you that my heart does...Our country has lost a sure support and a perpetual honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased Quebec in his death, it would... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...illustrate the sentiment of his officers and men. In a letter written just after the battle, he says, " I am not ashamed to own to you that my heart does...Our country has lost a sure support and a perpetual honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased Quebec in his death, it would... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...illustrate the sentiment of his officers and men. In a letter written just after the battle, he says, " wert once the loveliest land of all That see the Atlantic's...last, 'On Susquehanna's side, iair Wyoming,' Image honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased Quebec in his death, it would... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...illustrate the sentiment of his officers and men. In a letter written just after the battle, he says, " I am not ashamed to own to you that my heart does...Our country has lost a sure support and a perpetual honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased Quebec in his death, it would... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - Birds - 1863 - 504 pages
...learned by the subjoined extract from a letter written after the battle by General, afterwards Marquis Townshend, to one of his friends in England : —...Our country has lost a sure support, and a perpetual honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased Quebec in his death, it would... | |
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I am not ashamed to own to you, that my heart does not exult in the midst of this success. I have lost but a friend in General WOLFE. Our country has lost a sure support, and a perpetual honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased... 
