 | T.] [Rodenhurst - 1840 - 142 pages
...sudden pang. Captain Hardinge would have taken off the sword, but the general stopped him, saying, "It is as well as it is : I had rather it should go out of the field with me I " With these words he was borne from the battle. It was a long way to the town, and the torture of... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1841 - 668 pages
...Captain Hardinge, a staff-officer, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, ' It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;' and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight." Sir David Baird having... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1842 - 542 pages
...Hurdinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with trie ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.* Meanwhile the... | |
 | Kentigern (st.) - 1843 - 454 pages
...unbuckling it from his waist, R2 when he said, in his usual tone, and with the true spirit of a soldier, " It is as well as it is; I had rather it should go out of the field with me." When the surgeons arrived, he said to them, " You can be of no service to me; go to the soldiers, to... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 1154 pages
...celebrity hi future times, CAPTAIN HAKDINGE, attempted to take it off, but the dying hero exclaimed, " It is as well as it is ; I had rather it should go off the field with me." He was carried by the soldiers towards the town, but though the pain of the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 928 pages
...wound: Hardinge would have unbuckled the belt, and have taken it off; but the dying soldier said, " It is as •well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." Hardinge again began to hope, and to say that he hoped, the wound would not prove mortal. " No, Hardinge,"... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pages
...the wona Captain Harding would have taken it off, Moore stopped him, saying, " It is as well as iti I had rather it should go out of the field with me It was a long way to the town, and the torture, the motion was great, but the expression of countenance... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1846 - 772 pages
...contributed to cause might be relieved; but that Sir John Moore stopped him with this affecting speech, "It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The historian adds that, in this manner, so becoming a soldier, Sir John Moore was borne from the field,... | |
 | Henry Hardinge Hardinge (Viscount) - 1846 - 234 pages
...into the wound might be relieved ; but that Sir John Moore stopped him with this affecting speech, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The historian adds that, in this manner, so becoming a soldier, Sir John Moore was borne from the field,... | |
 | 1846 - 230 pages
...into the wound might be relieved ; but that Sir John Moore stopped him with this affecting speech, " It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me." The historian adds that, in this manner, so becoming a soldier, Sir John Moore was borne from the field,... | |
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It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight. 
