 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 pages
...command of an experienced officer, and man of sense. It is what I have ardently wished words, — ' / heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this the king said sensibly, — ' He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many.'... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 666 pages
...on his preceding little victory, (the skirmish with Jumonville,) he concluded with these words, — 'I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this the King said sensibly, — ' He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many.'... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1840 - 216 pages
...in which Washington, then a young major, ended the narrative of his first battle with the words, " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound ; " the King * Washington's Writings, Vol. II. p. 29. observed, " He would not say so, if he had been... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...which Major Washington despatched on his preceding little victory, he concluded with these words : " I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is something charming in the sound." On hearing of this letter, the king said sensibly, " He would not have said so, if he had used to hear... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...and in which young Major Washington concluded a narrative of his first skirmish by these words : " I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." On hearing this, the King said : " He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many." Washington... | |
 | François Guizot - 1840 - 262 pages
...and in which young Major Washington concluded a narrative of his first skirmish by these words : " I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me there is something charming in the sound." On hearing this the king said, " He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many." Washington... | |
 | Thomas Keppel (hon.) - 1842 - 640 pages
...Major Washington dispatched on his preceding little victory, he concluded with these words : — ' 1 heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this letter, the King said sensibly, ' He would not say so if he had been used to hear... | |
 | Thomas Robert Keppel - 1842 - 482 pages
...Major Washington dispatched on his preceding little victory, he concluded with these words : — ' I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in ihr sound.' On hearing of this letter, the King said sensibly, ' He would not say so if he had been... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 pages
...Washington despatched on his preceding little victory," says Walpole, " he concluded with these words, 'I heard the bullets whistle, and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this, the king said sensibly, ' He would not say so if he had been used to hear many.'... | |
 | 1848 - 660 pages
...strong and terrible passions ;" and that, " in a letter home, describing his first battle, he said, 'I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.'" Clutching eagerly at this fiction of the gossiping author of the Castle of Otranto — to one of whose... | |
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I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II. 
