 | Arthur Cayley - 1806 - 466 sidor
...retreat at Moncountour with so great resolution, as he saved one half of the protestant army, then Iroken and disbanded, of which myself was an eyewitness, and was one of them who had cause to thank him for it. T In Digges' Complete Ambassador, folio, 1655, p. 250, we read,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 560 sidor
...forced to fight upon our disadvantage, and to our ruin. And yet did that worthy gentleman count Lodowick of Nassau, brother to the late famous prince of Orange,...engaging himself, attending his advantage. In the mean while, C. Attilius, the other consul, with the legions of Sardinia, lands at Pisa ; so as the... | |
 | Thomas Moore (writer on Devon.) - 1829 - 312 sidor
...that he saved one-half of the Protestant army when broken and disbanded ; " of which," Ralegh says, " myself was an eye-witness, and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it." He was at this time only about eighteen years of age : but in these scenes he collected a treasure... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 sidor
...Prince of Orange, who made the retreat on that occasion, with such resolution and prudence that he saved one half of the Protestant army, then broken and disbanded : — " of which," says Ralegh, " myself was an eye-witness, and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it. "... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - 1854 - 344 sidor
...famous Prince of Orange, make the retreat at Moncontour with so great resolution, as he saved onehalf of the Protestant army, then broken and disbanded, of which myself was an eye witness, and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it." By what good fortune Ralegh escaped... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 318 sidor
...Wood, Athen. Oxoniensis, vol. i. col. 435. t Cainden, p. 117. B resolution and prudence that he saved one half of the Protestant army, then broken and disbanded : — " of which,' gays Ralegh, " myself was an eye-witness, and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it."*... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1868 - 820 sidor
...Prince of Orange, made the retreat at Moncontour with so great resolution as he saved the one-half of the Protestant army, then broken and disbanded, of which myself was an eyc-tvitncss, and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it." It seems hardly possible that... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1891 - 462 sidor
...army. Praising Count Lewis of Nassau for his skilful conduct of the Huguenot retreat, he remarks : ' Of which myself was an eye-witness, and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it.' The passage proves that he was in the Huguenot camp after Moncontour. Nothing in the remark is inconsistent... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1891 - 442 sidor
...army. Praising Count Lewis of Nassau for his skilful conduct of the Huguenot retreat, he remarks : ' Of which myself was an eye-witness, and was one of them that had cause to thank him for it.' The passage proves that he was in the Huguenot camp after Moncontour. Nothing in the remark is inconsistent... | |
 | Frederick Albion Ober - 1909 - 346 sidor
...Moncontour with so great resolution as he saved one half of the Protestant army, then broken and 12 disbanded — of which myself was an eyewitness, and...was one of them that had cause to thank him for it." As to the length of Raleigh's stay in France there is some disagreement, also as to the value of his... | |
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And yet did that worthy gentleman count Lodowick of Nassau, brother to the late famous prince of Orange, make the retreat at Moncontour with so great resolution, as he saved the one half of the protestant army, then broken and disbanded, of which myself... 
