 | Robert Wright - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 674
...effeminate race of coxcombs, the future leaders of our armies, defenders and pro\ tectors of our great and free nation ! You bid me avoid Fort William, because...temptations of power, till I become proud, insolent, and intolerable;—these considerations will make me wish to leave then, through the fickleness of my temper... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...effeminate race of coxcombs, the future leaders of our armies, defenders and protectors of our great and free nation ! " You bid me avoid Fort William, because...giving way insensibly to the temptations of power, till 1 become proud, insolent and intolerable ; — these considerations will make me wish to leave the... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...barrenness of his surroundings. He felt his position to be in no way salutary, and wrote to his mother: " The fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing...way insensibly to the temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and intolerable, — these considerations will make me wish to leave the regiment... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...barrenness of his surroundings. He felt his position to be in no way salutary, and wrote to his mother: " The fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing...way insensibly to the temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and intolerable, — these considerations will make me wish to leave the regiment... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...barrenness of his surroundings. He felt his position to be in no way salutary, and wrote to his mother: " The fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing...way insensibly to the temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and intolerable, — these considerations will make me wish to leave the regiment... | |
 | Arthur Granville Bradley - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...to some misconception of his reasons for wishing to come south he breaks out in less gentle mood : " The change of conversation, the fear of becoming a...way insensibly to the temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and intolerable. These considerations will make me wish to leave the regiment... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...barrenness of his surroundings. He felt his position to be in no way salutary, and wrote to his mother: " The fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing...way insensibly to the temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and intolerable, — these considerations will make me wish to leave the regiment... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...barrenness of his surroundings. He felt his position to be in no way salutary, and wrote to his mother : " The fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing...way insensibly to the temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and intolerable, — these considerations will make me wish to leave the regiment... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...effeminate race of coxcombs, the future leaders of our armies, defenders and protectors of our great and free nation. You bid me avoid Fort William, because...not be my reason for wishing to avoid it; but the changes of conversation, the fear of becoming a mere ruffian, and of imbibing the tyrannical principles... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...barrenness of his surroundings. He felt his position to be in no way salutary, and wrote to his mother: " The fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing...way insensibly to the temptations of power till I became proud, insolent, and intolerable, — these considerations will make me wish to leave the regiment... | |
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The fear of becoming a mere ruffian and of imbibing the tyrannical principles of an absolute commander, or giving way insensibly to the temptations of power till I... 
