Elizabeth College Register, 1824-1873: With a Record of Some Earlier Students. A Chapter of Island History, Volume 824,Edizione 1873

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Pagina v - ... been. But in this way we might break up a great army into units ; in this way we might break the sunlight into fragments, and think that this and the other might be cheaply parted with. Let us rather raise a monument to the soldiers whose brave hearts only kept the ranks unbroken, and met death — a monument to the faithful who were not famous, and who are precious as the continuity of the sunbeams is precious, though some of them fall unseen and on barrenness.
Pagina xxxvi - Company, their lordships do agree humbly to report as their opinion to your Majesty, that the said petition should be dismissed".
Pagina xxxix - Father in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ ; for the means of grace afforded us here, and for the hope of glory hereafter.
Pagina 144 - September, 1855, including the siege and fall of Sevastopol (medal with clasp and Turkish medal) ; retired in 1889 ; died in 1895.
Pagina 84 - Sevastopol (medal with three clasps, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Turkish medal) ; retired as Honorary Deputy Inspector General, 1867, to Jersey and thence to Guernsey, where he died in 1894.
Pagina v - We see human heroism broken into units and say, this unit did little — might as well not have been. But in this way we might break up a great army into units ; in this way we might break the sunlight into fragments, and think that this and the other might be cheaply parted with.
Pagina 126 - September, 1852, to the end of the war; present with Brigadier- General Cheape's force during the whole of the successful operations in the...
Pagina 126 - Cheape's force during the whole of the successful operations in the Donabew district, ending in the assault and capture, on the 19th March 1653, of the stronghold of the Burmese chief Myat-toon (Medal and Clasp).
Pagina 88 - Douglas to the final suppression of the rebellion in Shahabad (several times mentioned in despatches, and thanked by...
Pagina 44 - The heroism displayed by Tupper surpassed the prowess of any individual that I ever heard of in battle ; but, poor fellow ! he was horribly dealt with after getting away with another officer. A party of cavalry and Indians was sent in pursuit, and they boast that poor Tupper was cut to pieces. They seemed to be more in terror of him, on account of his personal bravery and popularity, than of all the...

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