 | Frederick Sayer - Europe - 1862 - 554 pages
...your swords, no provisions but those that you may snatch from the hands of our enemies ; . . . . do not think that I impose upon you a task from which...from you the dangers attending this our expedition ; but know that if you only suffer for awhile you will reap in the end an abundant harvest of pleasures... | |
 | Frederick Sayer - Europe - 1862 - 558 pages
...which I shrink myself, or that I try to conceal from you the dangers attending this our expedition ; but know that if you only suffer for awhile you will...an abundant harvest of pleasures and enjoyments.' " Theodomir, defeated and disheartened, retreated towards Seville, intending to form a junction with... | |
 | Frederick Sayer - Gibraltar - 1865 - 606 pages
...your swords, no provisions but those that you may snatch from the hands of our enemies ; . . . . do not think that I impose upon you a task from which...from you the dangers attending this our expedition ; but know that if you only suffer for awhile you will reap in the end an abundant harvest of pleasures... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Arabs - 1881 - 504 pages
...; their only means of subsistence in capturing the enemy's stores. " Do not think," he proceeded, " that I impose upon you a task from which I shrink...from you the dangers attending this our expedition." He promised to exceed them in selfdevotion and valor ; and then he tried to allure them, by describing... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - Great events by famous historians - 1905 - 438 pages
...be the means of your becoming the owners of them, besides saving yourselves from certain death. Do not think that I impose upon you a task from which...to encounter, but know that if you only suffer for a while, you will reap hi the end an abundant harvest of pleasures and enjoyments. And do not imagine... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1873 - 914 pages
...countless warriors drowned in steel, and provided with every store and description of arms. * * * Do not think that I impose upon you a task from which...try to conceal from you the dangers attending this expedition." He allured them by speaking of the Grecian maidens2 , " as handsome as Huris, and waiting... | |
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What can you oppose to them? You have no other weapons but your swords, no provisions but those that you may snatch from the hands of our enemies ; . . . . do not think that I impose upon you a task from which I shrink myself, or that I try to conceal... 