 | John William Cole - 1856 - 400 páginas
...to unbuckle the belt to take it off ; but he stopped him, and said with true soldierlike feelings, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." He was conveyed to his quarters in Corunna, where he lingered for several hours in intense agony, but... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 páginas
...sword was driven into the wound ; an officer attempted to take it off, hut the dying hero exclaimed, ' It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go off the field with me.' He continued to converse calmly, and even cheerfully; once only his voice faltered,... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1860 - 750 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... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 páginas
...entered the wound ; Captain Hardinge, a staff-officer, attempted to take it off, but 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 to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. Notwithstanding this... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - 1862 - 336 páginas
...wound, and Hardinge endeavoured to unbuckle it, but, with martial pride, the veteran General forbade him, saying, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Major Colborne (afterwards Lord Seton), the chief of his staff, then came up to inquire after him,... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1862 - 590 páginas
...was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it it. 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.* Meanwhile the army... | |
 | William Anderson - 1863 - 800 páginas
...unbuckling it from his waist, when he said, in his usual tone, and with the true spirit of a soldier, " It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." When the surgeons arrived, he said to them, " You can be of no service to me ; go to the soldiers,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 páginas
...the hilt entered the wound. Captain Hardinge, afterwards Lord Hardinge, attempted to take it oft', but he stopped him, saying : " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field wifh me." Several times he caused his attendants to stop, and turn round, that he might behold the... | |
 | Woolwich roy. military acad - 1864 - 588 páginas
...wound. Captain Hardinge, a staff officer who was near, attempted to take it off, but 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 waa borne from the fight. — Napier. MATHEMATICS.... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 300 páginas
...entered the wound ; Captain Hardinge, a staff-officer, attempted to take it off, but 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 to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. Notwithstanding this... | |
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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. 
