 How else could I command with honour ? How answer for the lives of those entrusted to my charge ? An ignorant General is a murderer; all brave men confide in the knowledge he pretends to possess, and when the death trial comes their generous blood flows...  Saint Pauls Magazine - Strona 7111869Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1857 - Liczba stron: 504
...pretends to possess, and when the death trial comes he fails because he has not studied his trade. Their generous blood flows in vain ! Merciful God...how can an ignorant man charge himself with so much blood ? I have studied it long, earnestly and deeply, yet tremble at my own deficiencies. " Nov. 29th.... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1857 - Liczba stron: 508
...when the death trial comes he fails because he has not studied his trade. Their generous blood Hows in vain ! Merciful God ! how can an ignorant man charge himself with so much blood ? I have studied it long, earnestly and deeply, yet tremble at my own deficiencies. " Nov. 29th.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - Liczba stron: 694
...a murderer: all brave men confide in the knowledge he pretends to possess, and when the death trial comes their generous blood flows in vain ! Merciful...how can an ignorant man charge himself with so much blood? I have studied it long, earnestly, and deeply, yet tremble at my own deficiencies.' Weighty... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1861 - Liczba stron: 618
...murderer : all brave men confide in the knowledge he pretends to possess, and when the death trial comes their generous blood flows in vain ! Merciful...how can an ignorant man charge himself with so much blood ? I have studied war long, earnestly, and deeply, yet tremble at my own deficiencies." After... | |
 | Patrick Leonard Macdougall - 1864 - Liczba stron: 544
...intrusted to my charge ? An ignorant general is a murderer : all brave men confide in the knowledge he pretends to possess, and when the death-trial comes...how can an ignorant man charge himself with so much blood ? I have studied war, long, earnestly, and deeply, yet tremble at my own deficiencies.' It appears... | |
 | sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall - 1864 - Liczba stron: 472
...murderer : all brave men confide in the knowledge he pretends to possess, and 'when the death -trial comes their generous blood flows in vain ! Merciful...how can an ignorant man charge himself with so much blood ? I have studied war, long, earnestly, and deeply, yet tremble at my own deficiencies.' It appears... | |
 | Patrick Leonard Macdougall - 1864 - Liczba stron: 476
...intrusted to my charge ? An ignorant general is a murderer : all brave men confide in the know-. ledge he pretends to possess, and when the death-trial comes their generous blood flows in vain 1 Merciful God ! how can an ignorant man charge himself with so much blood ? I have studied war, long,... | |
 | 1869 - Liczba stron: 1188
...retired into obscurity, we have pity, so far as he was the victim of political shackles ; but БО far as he was the victim of his own want of strategical...the commonest principles of the art of war. It is во no longer. The art is taught now at both the military colleges, though the tradition that officers... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1869 - Liczba stron: 798
...ignorant general," wrote our own grand Sir Charles Napier, " is a murderer. All brave men confide in tho knowledge that he pretends to possess, and when the...military colleges, though the tradition that officers of tho scientific corps were not to hold commands, long kept it away from Woolwich. And there will no... | |
 | William Napier Bruce - 1885 - Liczba stron: 448
...murderer ; all brave men confide in the knowledge he pretends to possess, and when the death trial comes their generous blood flows in vain ! Merciful...How can an ignorant man charge himself with so much blood •? I have studied war long, earnestly, and deeply, yet tremble at my own deficiencies." His... | |
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