 | 1840 - 974 pagine
...king's salt, and, therefore, I consider it my duty to serve with unhesitating zeal and cheerfulness, when or wherever the king or his government may think proper to employ me." In his place in parliament (for the borough of Rye) he repelled the unworthy attacks made upon the... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1835 - 638 pagine
...and, therefore, I conceive it to be my duty to serve with unhesitating zeal and cheerfulness, when and wherever the King or his government may think proper to employ me.' This maxim has the more force from there being officers in the army, who, unfortunately for them, having... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 1154 pagine
...reduced to the rank of a brigadier of infantry, he replied — " For this reason — I was niniuk-wallah, as we say in the East; I have ate of the King's salt;...or his Government may think proper to employ me." Jfor was this disinterested and high-minded patriotism and sense of duty without its final reward ;... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pagine
...have ate of the king's salt, and therefore consider it my duty to serve with zeal and promptitnde, when or wherever, the king Or his government may think...but Wellington pursued the path of duty under every shght, and he lived to strike down Napoleon on the field of Waterloo."* The expedition sailed from... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1847 - 418 pagine
...of 40,000 men, received the Order of the Bath and the thanks of parliament, could thus submit to be reduced to the rank of a brigadier of infantry, he...thrown up the command, and rested on the laurels of Seringaputam and Assaye : but Wellington pursued the path of duty under every slight, and he lived... | |
 | Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 pagine
...nimuk wallah, as we say in the East; I have eat of the King's salt, and therefore I consider it to be my duty to serve with zeal and promptitude, when or...or his Government may think proper to employ me." WELLINGTON AT WATERLOO. NEVER was a falser statement than that which ascribes the victory to Chance.... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1860 - 722 pagine
...therefore I " conceive it to be my duty to serve with unhesitating " zeal and cheerfulness when and wherever the King " or his government may think proper to employ me." In the summer of 1807, however, he was called to take a share in more active operations. Napoleon and... | |
 | 1861 - 998 pagine
...have eaten the king's salt, and I consider it my duty to serve with zeal and promptitude whenever and N | ô lFĴ - 14 k ~ ^>$D q q * k %D \9 Ԇ His exhibition of the same spirit of loyal submission, when, on the very day of his victory at Vimiera,... | |
 | 1861 - 1176 pagine
...have eaten the king's salt, and I consider it my duty to serve with zeal and promptitude whenever and wherever the king or his government may think proper to employ me." His exhibition of the same spirit of loyal submission, when, on the very day of his victory at Vimiera,... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1862 - 374 pagine
...king's salt, and therefore conceive it my duty to serve with unhesitating zeal and cheerfulness when and wherever the king or his government may think proper to employ me." Had it not been for this feeling, or had the Duke of Richmond declined to act on this grand military... | |
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For this plain reason,' was the answer, ' I am nimmukwaUah, as we say in the East; that is, I have ate of the King's salt, and, therefore, I conceive it to be my duty to serve with unhesitating zeal and cheerfulness, when and wherever the King or his... 
