 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1826 - 666 pages
...; we shall " do no good there ; monsieur le prince never sleeps, BOOK " and that is his post ; but I will tell you, what will ! — "fall out on the other side;" for he had himself l(i58' marched in the Spanish army, and very well understood the customs of it. He told... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1826 - 668 pages
...; we shall " do no good there ; monsieur le prince never sleeps, BOOK " and that is his post ; but I will tell you, what will . "fall out on the other side;" for he had himself lfi58' marched in the Spanish army, and very well understood the customs of it. He told... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1839 - 560 pages
...that line ; we shall do no good there ; monsieur " le prince never sleeps, and that is his post; but " I will tell you, what will fall out on the other " side;" for he had himself marched in the Spanish army, and very well understood the customs of it. He told them... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1843 - 810 pages
...that line ; we shall do " no good there ; monsieur le prince never sleeps, " and that is his post; but I will tell you, what " will fall out on the other side ;" for he had himself marched in the Spanish army, and very well understood the customs of it. He told them... | |
 | Giovanni Ruffini - Italy - 1853 - 714 pages
...attacking that very day at noon a particular part of the lines, which he pointed out to them. The otficers observed to him that the lines on the opposite side...that we really mean to attack them at that time of •lay, and will for a long time fancy that it is only a false alarm. When at length they are convinced... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Command of troops - 434 pages
...no good there ; Mon-ieur le Prince never sleeps, and that is his post. But I will ull ycu how things will fall out on the other side ; for I have served in the Spanish arиues, and know their customs. The soldiers on guard will be slow in believing that we really mean... | |
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... strongest part of the line ; and that " they had observed to him, that the whole line on " the other side was very much weaker:" to which the marshal replied, " You do not know who keeps " that line ; we shall do no good there ; monsieur " le prince... 