 | Henry Hardinge Hardinge (Viscount) - 1846 - 234 páginas
...into the wound might be relieved ; but that Sir John Moore stopped him with this affecting speech, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The historian adds that, in this manner, so becoming a soldier, Sir John Moore was borne from the field,... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1846 - 396 páginas
...staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him saying, ' It is well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' " Thus was the hero borne from the field of battle. He died before night, and was buried in the citadel... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1846 - 400 páginas
...staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him saying, ' It is well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' " Thus was the hero borne from the field of battle. He died before night, and was buried in the citadel... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (of the 43rd Light Infantry.) - 1847 - 176 páginas
...soldiers placed him in a blanket, his sword became entangled, and the hilt entered the wound. Capt. Hardinge attempted to take it off, but he stopped...wound ; and the command of the army now devolved on Gen. Hope. In the meanwhile, all went prosperously in the field. The reserve pushed on to the right,... | |
 | 1847 - 568 páginas
...wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, hut the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' And in that manner, so becoming a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. * * * The blood flowed fast,... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1847 - 418 páginas
...celebrity in future times, CAPTAIN HARDINGE, attempted to take it off, but the dying hero exclaimed, " It is as welL as it is ; I had rather it should go off the field with me." He was carried by the soldiers towards the town, but though the pain of the... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1847 - 440 páginas
...staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him saying, ' It is well as it is. I had rather it should go out of (he field with me.' " Thus was the hero borne from the field of battle. He died before night, and was... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1848 - 692 páginas
...to Hardinge, who attempted to remove his sword, that the dying hero addressed the energetic words, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" to the same gentleman, and to Col. Anderson, Sir John Moore expressed his satisfaction at falling as... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1850 - 474 páginas
...him away, the hilt of his sword entered the wound: Captain Harding would have taken it off, but Moore stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me !" It was a long way to the town, and the torture of the motion was great, but the expression of his... | |
 | Robert Huston - 1851 - 234 páginas
...began to unbuckle it, but the General said, in his usual tone and manner, and in a distinct voice, 'It is as well as it is: I had rather it should go out of the field with me.' Six soldiers of the 42d and the Guards bore him. Hardinge, observing his composure, began to hope that... | |
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It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
