 | Charles Duke Yonge - Marshals - 1860 - 726 pages
...command the army or not, or " was to quit it, he should do his best to insure its success ; and should not hurry the operations, or " commence them one moment sooner than they ought * DiHpatches, iv., 18. ic 1808. " to be commenced, in order that he might acquire the " credit of the... | |
 | 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 - 1866 - 750 pages
...the army or not, or even to quit it, I shall do my best to insure success, and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations, or commence...commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of success.' And he at once showed by his first operations that his confidence in himself was thoroughly... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1866 - 588 pages
...the army or not, or even to quit it, I shall do my best to insure success, and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooner than they ought to ho commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of success.' And he at once showed by his first... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 586 pages
...the army or not, or even to quit it, I shall do my best to insure success, and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one momeut sooner than they ought to be commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of success.'... | |
 | Arthur Griffiths - 1897 - 462 pages
...the army or not, or am to quit it, I shall do my best to secure its success ; and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations or commence...commenced in order that I may acquire the credit of success." Withal Wellesley was not the man to let slip golden opportunities. There was work to be done,... | |
 | Sir Evelyn Wood (i.e. Henry Evelyn) - 1906 - 330 pages
...expressed in his letter to Viscount Castlereagh, dated the 1st of August 1808. "... You may depend, I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooner than they may be commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of success." And again, a year later, in a... | |
 | Sir Evelyn Wood - Great Britain - 1906 - 330 pages
...expressed in his letter to Viscount Castlereagh, dated the 1st of August 1SoS. "... You may depend, I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooner than they may be commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of success." And again, a year later, in a... | |
 | English literature - 1839 - 578 pages
...its success; and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them onu moment sooner than they ought to be commenced, in...order that I may acquire the credit of the success.' — Vol. ix. p. 55. These noble sentiments are immediately followed by another passage, which is also... | |
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All that I can say upon that subject is, that whether I am to command the army or not, or am to quit it, I shall do my best to insure its success; and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooner than... 
