 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 874 pages
...the post of general. ' I make no pretensions to military knowledge,' he told his confederates, ' but if once I pledge my hand to the diggers I will neither...treachery nor render it contemptible by cowardice.' Raffaello was present, and reports the scene, and Lalor's rhetoric probably owes a little to his Italian... | |
 | John C. Molony, John Neylon Molony - History - 2001 - 288 pages
...and told them that, if he were chosen as commander, he would not shrink back, but would do his duty. 'I tell you gentlemen, if once I pledge my hand to...treachery, nor render it contemptible by cowardice'. Carboni declined to lead, despite some knowledge of armed aggression derived from his involvement with... | |
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I mean to do my duty as a man. I tell you, gentlemen, if once I pledge my hand to the diggers, I will neither defile it with treachery nor render it contemptible by cowardice. 