...have for these last ten days been so troubled by the many disappointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer, it would make an end of me. In short, I am weary of my life."* * For the account of the military operations on the Moselle, and...

...have for these last ten days been so troubled by the many disappointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer it would make an end of me. In short, I am weary of my life." In the middle of June anxious news came from Holland. Villeroi and...

...his great victories of 1704] been so troubled by the many disappointments I have had, that I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer it would make an end of me. In short, I am weary of my life. — Marlborouyh. 223. ANXIETY on account of sin. One day, when at...

...undertaken this campaign. . . . My dearest soul, pity me and love me."2 To Godolphin he said: " I think if it were possible to vex me so for a fortnight longer, it would make an end of me. In short, I am weary of my life."3 He was naturally concerned for his own reputation. To publish the...

...Marlborough would have besieged if the allies had not deceived him. ' If I had known beforehand,' says he, ' what I must have endured by relying on the people...doubled in his Memoirs the number of Marlborough's army, asserting that it contained German auxiliaries of all the provinces, commanded by their princes in...

...allies, the French were enabled to make an effort on the Meuse, where Villeroy got possession of Hny, entered Liege, and besieged the citadel of that great...fortnight longer, it would make an end of me. No part of Marlborough 's history has been more misrepresented by the French writers than this. Vilkrs, with a...