The Queen's Colours, and Other Sketches of a Soldier's Life. [With Illustrations.]Religious Tract Society, 1883 - 96 páginas |
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... glory . " They did not live to reap any " glory " as regards their individual life , but there is now a halo round their memory which will ever brighten the sad record of that Zulu War . And if what they did was their duty , does not ...
... glory . " They did not live to reap any " glory " as regards their individual life , but there is now a halo round their memory which will ever brighten the sad record of that Zulu War . And if what they did was their duty , does not ...
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... glory to Himself , which is to overcome in us and by us . Hence it is that in addressing young Christians we may appeal to the same class of motives which stir a soldier to fidelity to this flag . Is the one soldier sworn on his ...
... glory to Himself , which is to overcome in us and by us . Hence it is that in addressing young Christians we may appeal to the same class of motives which stir a soldier to fidelity to this flag . Is the one soldier sworn on his ...
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... glory combined in one . Duty by itself may become dry and hard , and glory alone would make him vain and vaunting . But a soldier may fairly covet honour without giving way to any undue desire for praise . So much is this the case ...
... glory combined in one . Duty by itself may become dry and hard , and glory alone would make him vain and vaunting . But a soldier may fairly covet honour without giving way to any undue desire for praise . So much is this the case ...
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... glory , is not ashamed to die when his honour is bound up with the colours of the regiment . He would , on the contrary , blush to hear that civilians thought his conduct glorious , and that even old generals would uncover their heads ...
... glory , is not ashamed to die when his honour is bound up with the colours of the regiment . He would , on the contrary , blush to hear that civilians thought his conduct glorious , and that even old generals would uncover their heads ...
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... glory which fadeth not away . Of all deaths , that is most to be envied , when the flag we fought under becomes our winding - sheet ; when our very enemies lay us in it , and respect us , as men of the world always do , for our ...
... glory which fadeth not away . Of all deaths , that is most to be envied , when the flag we fought under becomes our winding - sheet ; when our very enemies lay us in it , and respect us , as men of the world always do , for our ...
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Página 91 - Drawn with Pen and Pencil. By JAMES MACAULAY, MA, MD, editor of the " Leisure Hour,'