 The truth is I am more of a farmer than a soldier. I take little or no interest in military affairs, and, although I entered the army thirtyfive years ago and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, I never went into the army...  A First Manual of Composition - Page 247by Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1902 - 292 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1886 - 850 pages
...it except as a means of peace.' And again, to Prince Bismarck he made a somewhat similar remark : ' I never went into the army without regret, and never retired without pleasure !' Through Europe, and home by India, Siam, China, and Japan, went the General and his party, welcomed... | |
 | John Russell Young - 1879 - 778 pages
...entered the army thirty-five years ago and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, I never went into the army without regret and never retired without pleasure." " You are so happily placed," replied the prince, " in America that you need fear no wars. What always... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1879 - 880 pages
...entered the army thirty-five years ago and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, I never went into the army without regret and never retired without pleasure." " You are so happily placed," said the prince, " in America that you need fear no wars. What always... | |
 | John Russell Young - 1879 - 756 pages
...army thirty-five years ago and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, 1 never went into the army without regret and never retired without pleasure." " You are so happily placed," replied the prince, " in America that you need fear no wars. What always... | |
 | John Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...entered the army thirtyfive years ago, and have been in two wars, — in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, — I never went into the army without regret, and never retired without pleasure." At a dinner given on the Fourth of July at Hamburg, Grant's health was proposed as the "man who had... | |
 | J. F. Packard - 1880 - 832 pages
...entered the army thirty-five years ago and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, I never went into the army without regret and never retired without pleasure." "You are so happily placed," said the Prince, "in America that you need fear no wars. What always seemed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1880 - 646 pages
...entered the army thirty-five years ago and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, I never went into the army without regret and never retired without pleasure.' Talking of the Secessionist war, the Prince suggested that, if the North had had a large army at the... | |
 | J. F. Packard - 1880 - 840 pages
...entered the army thirty-five years ago and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, I never went into the army without regret and never retired without pleasure." " You are so happily placed," said the Prince, " in America that you need fear no wars. What always... | |
 | 1880 - 606 pages
...entered the army thirty-five years ago, and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later, I never went Into the army without regret, and never retired without pleasure."— (P. 236.) " Whigs, Radicals, and Conservatives" is an elaborate and тегу forcible appeal to the... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 pages
...years ago, and have been in two wars, in Mexico as a young lieutenant, and later in our civil war, I never went into the army without regret, and never retired without pleasure." " You are so happily placed," replied the prince, "in America, that you need fear no wars. What always... | |
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