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" are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to... "
The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle: Oliver Cromwell's letters and ... - Page 247
by Thomas Carlyle - 1864
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A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Huntingdon ...

Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...serviceable to him in bringing such men in, as I thought had a spirit that would do something in the work. ' Your troops,' said I, ' are most of them old decayed...serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows; — and their troops are gentlemen*! sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. And do you think that the...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 7, Part 1

John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...such men in, as I thought had a spirit that would do something in the work, ' Your troops,' said 1, ' are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ;— and their troops are-gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. And do you think that the...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 7

John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 896 pages
...as 1 thought had a spirit ihat would do something in the work. ' Your troops," said I, ' arc nx.st of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows;— ind their troops are rentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality. And do you think tliat...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 3

William Harris - 1814 - 542 pages
...that would do something in the work : this is very true that I tell you, God knows that I lie not. Your troops, said I, are most of them old decayed...such kind of fellows ; and, said I, their troops are gentlemens sons, younger sons, and persons of quality, do you think that the spirits of such base and...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 3

William Harris - 1814 - 560 pages
...decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and, said I, their troops are gentlemens sons, younger sons, and persons of quality, do you...that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will be ever able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and courage and resolution in them ? Truly I...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 3

William Harris - 1814 - 546 pages
...something in the work : this is very true that I tell you, God knows that I lie not. Your troops, said J, are most of them old decayed serving-men and tapsters,...such kind of fellows ; and, said I, their troops are gentlemens sons, younger sons, and persons of quality, do you think that the spirits of such base and...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...that I tell yon, God knows I lie not. Your troops, said I, are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and said...spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be enabled to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage, and resolution in them ? Truly, 1 presented...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 25

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...that I tell you, God knows I lie not. Your troops, said I, are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and said...spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be enabled to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage, and resolution in them ? Truly, I presented...
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Oliver Cromwell and His Times

Thomas Cromwell - Great Britain - 1822 - 622 pages
...engagement, were beaten on every hand,' he tells them that he suggested to that patriot the remedy: — ' Your troops, said I, are most of them old decayed...tapsters, and such kind of fellows; and, said I, their (the King's) troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality : —do you think the...
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 7

David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 514 pages
...parliamentary armies in the end victorious. " Your troops (said he to Hambden, according to his own account)" are most of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters, and such kind of fellows; the king's forces are composed of gentlemen's younger sons and persons of good quality. And do you...
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