 Saragossa have frequently seen this young, delicate, and beautiful, woman coolly attending to the duties she had prescribed to herself in the midst of the most tremendous fire of shot and shells ; nor were they...  The Literary Panorama - Page 1291809Full view - About this book
 | 1809 - 594 pages
...declare that they have frequently seen this younc, delicate, and beautiful woman coolly attending to .the duties she had prescribed to herself in the midst...produce upon her the slightest effect, or bend her from her benevolent and patriotic purpose. The loss of women and boys »luring the siege was very great,... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 574 pages
...they have frequently seen thi* young, delicate, and beautiful woman coolly attending to the dirties she had prescribed to herself in the midst of the...the first moment that she entered into these novel scene*, that the jdea of personal danger could produce upon her the slightest effict, or bend her from... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 1020 pages
...declare, that they have frequently seen this young, delicate, and beautiful woman, coolly attending to the duties she had prescribed to herself, in the midst of the most tremendous tire of shot and shells ; nor were they even able to perceive, from the first moment, that she entered... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1810 - 960 pages
...frequently seen this young, delicate, and beautiful woman coolly attending to the duties she ii •' prescribed- to herself, in the midst of the most tremendous fire of shot and shells; nor were they able to perceive from the first moment that she entered on this glorious course, that the idea of personal... | |
 | Europe - 1810 - 600 pages
...Burita instituted a corps for this service, a lady of great rank, young, delicate, and beautiful." In the midst of the most tremendous fire of shot and shells, she was seen coolly attending to those occupations which were now become her duty; nor throughout the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1810 - 602 pages
...Countess Burita instituted a corps for this service, a lady of great rank, young, delicate, and beautiful. In the midst of the most tremendous fire of shot and shells, she was seen coolly attending to those occupations which were now become her duty ; nor throughout... | |
 | 1810 - 602 pages
...Countess Burita instituted a corps for this service, a lady of great rank, young, delicate, and beautiful. In the midst of the most tremendous fire of shot and shells, she was seen coolly attending to those occupations which were now become her duty; nor throughout the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1812 - 570 pages
...in Saragossa have frequently seen this young, delicate, and beautiful, woman coolly attending to the duties she had prescribed to herself in the midst...produce upon her the slightest effect, or bend her from her benevolent and patriotic purpose. The loss of women and boys during the siege was very great,... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - 1813 - 456 pages
...they had frequently seen this young, delicate, and beautiful woman coolly attending to the duties fehe had prescribed to herself, in the midst of the most...tremendous fire of shot and shells ; nor were they able to perceive, from the first moment that she entered on this glorious course, that the idea of... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 622 pages
...service was instituted by the countess Burita, a lady of high rank, young, delicate, and beautiful. In the midst of the most tremendous fire of shot and shells, she was seen coolly attending to those occupations which were now become her duty ; nor throughout... | |
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