A History and Some Records of the Volunteer Movement in Bury, Heywood, Rossendale, and Ramsbottom

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T. Crompton, 1887 - 332 sidor
 

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Sida 181 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Sida 70 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Sida 63 - Bully for you !" Called him " Daddy,"— begged he'd disclose The name of the tailor who made his clothes, And what was the value he set on those ; While Burns, unmindful of jeer and scoff, Stood there picking the rebels off, — With his long brown rifle, and bell-crown hat, And the swallow-tails they were laughing at.
Sida 123 - And I have to request that you will be good enough to communicate this determination to the Senate at their meeting this day.
Sida 317 - Women. We laid Him for burial 'Mong aloes and myrrh; His children and friends Laid their dead Master here! All wrapt in his grave-dress, We left Him in fear — Ah! where shall we seek Him The Lord is not here!
Sida 118 - ... are recoverable by him before a magistrate. The conditions on which Her Majesty's Government will recommend to Her Majesty the acceptance of any proposal are : — That the formation of the corps be recommended by the lord-lieutenant of the county. That the corps be subject to the provisions of the Act already quoted. That its members undertake to provide their own arms and equipments, and to defray all expenses attending the corps, except in the event of its being assembled for actual service.
Sida 59 - Everywhere flags were flying, bells and music sounding, wine and ale flowing in rivers to the health of him whose return was the return of peace, of law, and of freedom.
Sida 70 - Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.
Sida 12 - He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me, according to my age and strength: as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger: for men shall never Shoot well, except they be brought up in it. It is a goodly Art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in Physic.
Sida 83 - This general enrolment, denominated the levy en masse, was divided into four different classes ; the first comprehended all unmarried men between the ages of seventeen and thirty ; the second, unmarried men between thirty and fifty ; the third, all married men between seventeen and thirty, not having more than two children under ten years of age ; and the fourth, all under the age of fifty-five, not comprised in the other descriptions.

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