 | 1817 - Počet stránok 608
...public writings, sufficiently showed, that his time had been spent more in camps than in courts. — We have often heard Russian and Prussian officers...triumphs are the result of superior skill.' — ' We were much struck by the courteous and dignified manners of old Count Platoff. Even at that time, before... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1815 - Počet stránok 314
...pleased to find, that full justice was done to his merits as an officer by all ranks of the :U1 led armies. On the day that he entered Paris, the watch-word...Russian and Prussian officers say, he is the hero of die war:—we have conquered the French by main force, but his triumphs are the result of superior... | |
 | 1816 - Počet stránok 572
...public .writings, sufficiently shewed, that his time had been spent more in camps than in courts. — We have often heard. Russian and Prussian officers...triumphs are the result of superior skill.' — ' We were much struck by the courteous and dignified manner* of old Count Platoff. Even at that time, before... | |
 | 1822 - Počet stránok 522
...watch>word in the whole armies in the neighbourhood was Wellington, and the countersign Tala\ era. We have often heard Russian and Prussian officers say, he is the hero of the war :— - -we hare conquered the French by main force, but his triumphs are the result of superior skill. We found,... | |
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... with the impressions of his character derived from his whole conduct, and the style of his public writings, sufficiently shewed, that his time had been spent more in camps than in courts. 