 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 páginas
...which are still, at a coronation, rendered to the person of the sovereign by some lords of manors. The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand...veterans would be seen begging in every street, or would be driven by hunger to pillage. But no such result followed. In a few months there remained not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 páginas
...which are still, at a coronation, rendered to the person of the sovereign by some lords of manors. The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand...veterans would be seen begging in every street, or would be driven by hunger to pillage. But no such result followed. In a few months there remained not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 páginas
...thousand P"1"''?A • ing of Ibe men, accustomed to the profession of arms, were at once army. CHAP, thrown on the world: and experience seemed to warrant...hunger to pillage. But no such result followed. In a fow months there remained not a trace indicating that the most formidable army in the world had just... | |
 | John Angell James - 1849 - 302 páginas
...Restoration, they laid down their military character and returned to the occupations of peace and their homes. "The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand...accustomed to the profession of arms were at once to be thrown npon the world ; and experience seemed to warrant the belief that this change would produce... | |
 | 1850 - 580 páginas
...general mass of society. The historian is speaking of Cromwell's army at the time of the Restoration. " The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand...veterans would be seen begging in every street, or would be driven by hunger to pillage. But no such result followed. In a few months there remained not... | |
 | 1850 - 652 páginas
...general mass of socicty. The historian is speaking of Cromwell's army at the time of the Restoration. " The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand...men, accustomed to the profession of arms, were at ouce thrown on the world; and experience seemed to warrant the belief that this change would produce... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 714 páginas
...which are still, at a coronation, rendered to the person of the sovereign by some lords of manors. The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand men, accustomed to the profession of arms, were Disbanding at once thrown on the world: and experience seemed to ofthcarmy. warrant ^ belief that this... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1853 - 240 páginas
...SERGEANT. WE are told by a distinguished writer of the present day, that when " the troops of Cromwell were disbanded, fifty thousand men accustomed to the profession...veterans would be seen begging in every street, or would be driven by hunger to pillage. But no such result followed. In a few months there remained not... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1855 - 540 páginas
...can even pretend to adduce a parallel, which stands absolutely alone, in the annals of man : — " Fifty thousand men, accustomed to the profession of...veterans would be seen begging in every street, or would be driven by hunger to pillage. But no such result followed. In a few months there remained not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1855 - 556 páginas
...which are still, at a coronation, rendeied to the person of the sovereign by some lords of manors. The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand...that this change would produce much misery and crime, Jiat the discharged veterans would be seen begging in every street, or would be driven by hunger to... | |
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The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand men, accustomed to the profession of arms, were at once thrown on the world ; and experience seemed to warrant the belief that this change would produce much misery and crime — that the discharged... 
