 | David Stewart - 1822 - 658 pages
...ardour by none but our officers, who animated the troops by their example, "ashen the Highland Juries rushed in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest. I cannot say much • Sec Appendix KK. f Doddridge's Life of Colonel Gardiner. VOL. I. s of the other auxiliaries, some... | |
 | David Stewart - 1822 - 552 pages
...side is apt to paralyze resistance on the other, and, if attacked " by furies rushing in upon them, with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest," an enemy may have their nerves somewhat disordered by the shock ; and, while the arm is rendered unsteady,... | |
 | David Stewart (Major-General.) - 1825 - 662 pages
...officers, who animated the troops by their example, -xfien the Highland furies rushed in upon us tcitft more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest. I cannot say much of the other auxiliaries, some of whom looked as if they had no great concern in the matter which way... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 932 pages
...where, according to the account of the French themselves, " the Highland furies rushed in upon them with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest." Professor Adam Fergusson's subsequent history is well known. He recovered from a decided shock of paralysis... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 386 pages
...where, according to the account of the French themselves, " the Highland furies rushed in upon them with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest." Professor A<iam Fergusson's subsequent history is well known. He recovered from a decided shock of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 394 pages
...where, according to the account of the French themselves, " the Highland furies rushed in upon them with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest." Professor Adam Fergusson's subsequent history is well known. He recovered from a decided shock of paralysis... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 260 pages
...where, according to the account of the French themselves, ' the Highland furies rushed in upon 'them with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.' " This militant chaplain remained with his regiment until 1757, when he accepted of the situation of... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 430 pages
...where, according to the account of the French themselves, ' the Highland furies rushed in upon them with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.' ' *— Miscettaneous Prose Works. more deep-felt gratification from his Majesty's kind and paternal... | |
 | James Browne - 1851 - 600 pages
...but our officers, who animated the troops by their example, when the Highland furiet rushed in vpon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest, I cannot say much of the other auxiliaries, some of whom looked as if they had no great concern in the matter which way... | |
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The British behaved well, and could be exceeded in ardour by none but our officers, who animated the troops by their example, when the Highland furies rushed in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest. 
