 | Sir John Carr - Ireland - 1806 - 322 pages
...the bravery of the Irish soldier was honourably mentioned. That happy genius says, " I have 41 heard some great warriors say, that in all the services...countries, they " never saw a more comely man than an Irishman, nor «' that cometh on more bravely to his charge." I believe the low Irish are no more... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Ireland - 1806 - 366 pages
...Irish soldier was honourably mentioned. That happy genius says, " I have heard some great war* " riors say, that in all the services which they had seen abroad in " foreign countrie< they never saw a more comely man than an " Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely to his... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1833 - 636 pages
...same author says — " I have heard some great warriores say, that in all the services which they have seen abroad in foreign countries, they never saw a more comely man than an Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge; neither is his manner of mounting unseemly,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - English literature - 1841 - 326 pages
...time, the bravery of the Irish soldier was honorably mentioned. That happy genius says, " I have heard some great warriors say, that in all the services...foreign countries, they never saw a more comely man than an Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely to his charge." The instances of Irish intrepidity are... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 320 pages
...time, the bravery of the Irish soldier was honorably mentioned. That happy genius says, " I have heard some great warriors say, that in all the services...foreign countries, they never saw a more comely man than an Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely to his charge." The instances of Irish intrepidity are... | |
 | John Cornelius O'Callaghan - Ireland - 1842 - 382 pages
...described in the contemporary language of the English poet Spencer, who both lived and wrote in Ireland. " I have heard," says he, " some great warriors say,...which they had seen abroad in foreign countries, they WEYEH SAW A MORE COMELY MAIf THA> THE J I1iSIIM YN, NOR THAT COMETH Olf MORE BRAVELY TO HIS CHAROE... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - Great Britain - 1843 - 98 pages
...cannot, however, refrain from inserting the following quotation from Edmund Spencer : — ' I have heard some great warriors say, that in ' all the services...NEVER SAW A MORE COMELY MAN THAN THE IRISHMAN, NOR THAT COMETH ON MORE BRAVELY TO HIS CHARGE.' — Spencer's Ireland. These now are all noble traits in... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - Great Britain - 1843 - 98 pages
...cannot, however, refrain from inserting the following quotation from Edmund Spenser : — ' I have heard some great warriors say, that in ' all the services...' foreign countries, THEY NEVER SAW A MORE 'COMELY МАЯ THAN" THE IRIISHMAN, NOR THAT ' COMETH ON MORE BRAVELY TO HIS CHARGE.' — Spenser's Ireland.... | |
 | John Cornelius O'Callaghan - Ireland - 1845 - 376 pages
...in Ireland at this time, says — "I have heard some great warriors say, that, in all the services they had seen abroad in foreign countries, they never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely to his charge !" And, in addition to the certainty there was, of England's... | |
 | Thornton MacMahon - English literature - 1846 - 260 pages
...cannot, however, refrain from inserting the following quotation, from Edmund Spenser : — " I have heard some great warriors say, that in all the services...never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely to his charge." — Spenser's Ireland. These now are all noble traits in... | |
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I have heard some great warriors say that, in all the services which they had seen abroad in foreign countries, they never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge... 
