 | Anna Maria Hall
...ordered one of his servants to place him under a trce, with his face towards the enemy ; then fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead of a eross, he addressed his prayer to God ; and in this posture, which became his character both as a soldier... | |
 | William Robertson - 1848 - 643 pagina’s
...ordered one of b\a attendants to place him under a tree, with his face towards the enemy; then fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead...his character both as a soldier and as a Christian, be calmly waited the approach of death. Bourbon, who led the foremost of the enemy's troops, found... | |
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1855
...his back to an enemy during his life, he ought not to do so in the hour of death : then, fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead...addressed his prayers to God ; and in this posture he calmly waited the approach of death. The Duke of Bourbon, who led the advance of the enemy's troops,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1856 - 643 pagina’s
...enemy • • Cute. I. xr. SKI. Capella, 100. then fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which ho held up instead of a cross, he addressed his prayers to God, aud in ihis posture, which became his character both as a soldier and as a Chibtian, he calmly '.vailed... | |
 | William Robertson, William Hickling Prescott - 1857 - 684 pagina’s
...one of his attendants to place him under a tree, with his face towards the enemy ; then fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead...which became his character both as a soldier and as a Christian,hecalmly awaited the approach of death. Bourbon, who led the foremost of the enemy's troops,... | |
 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1858
...of his attendants to place him under 2 a tree, with his 5 face towards the enemy ; then fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead of a cross,4 he addressed his prayers to God, and in this posture, which became his character both as a... | |
 | William Robertson - 1859
...one of his attendants to place him under a tree, with his face towards the enemy ; then, fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead...character both as a soldier and as a Christian, he calmly a\yaited the approach of death. Bourbon, who led the foremost of the enemy's troops, found him in this... | |
 | William Robertson - 1860
...one of his attendants to place him under a tree, with his face towards the enemy; then, fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead...cross, he addressed his prayers to God, and in this E$^* posture, which became his character both as a soldier and as a Christian, he calmly awaited the... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860
...with his face, le visage. his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up 1 instead of a cross, 2 he addressed his prayers to God, and in this posture, which became 3 his character both as a soldier and as a 4 Christian, he calmly waited the approach of death. Bourbon,*... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866
...ordered one of his attendants to place him under a tree with his face towards the enemy; then fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead...addressed his prayers to God, and in this posture he calmly waited the approach of death. — ROBERTSON'S Charles V. Just before Bayard's death Bourbon... | |
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... on horseback, he ordered one of his attendants to place him under a tree, with his face towards the enemy • then fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead of a cross, he addressed his prayers to God, and in this posture,... 
