...and generals, compelled the duke to abandon his intention, exclaiming, in grief and mortification, " I am at this moment ten years older than I was four days ago." So glaring and insolent an interference with the well-digested schemes of a commander in chief, was...

...would not have ventured to stand their ground. In the bitterness of his disappointment he exclaimed, I am at this moment ten years older than I was four days ago ! Marlborough wrote to the States, controuling, as he always did, his own personal feelings deeply...

...Marlborough was deficient in personal courage ! In the bitterness of his disappointment he exclaimed, I am at this moment ten years older than I was four days ago! Marlborough wrote to the States, controuling, as he always did, his own personal feelings deeply as...

...would not have ventured to stand their ground. In die bitterness of his disappointment he exclaimed, I am at this moment ten years older than I was four days ago ! Marlborough wrote to the States, controuling, as he always did, hia own personal feelings, deeply...

...almost certain. So severely mortified did he feel on this occasion, that he is said to have exclaimed, " I am at this moment ten years older than I was four days ago." He wrote to the states, pointing out the advantages he had lost through the ignorance of others, and...

...adopted a similar opinion. Their report being handed to Mailborough, he exclaimed in hitterness of heart, "I am, at this moment, ten years older than I was four days ago." Nor were the determinations of the morrow different; for even Overkirk seems at last to have surrendered...

...MARLBOROUGH could weep ; and once exclaimed, on receiving some news, in respect to obstructions, " I am at this moment ten years older than I was four days ago." NAPOLEON also, gave way, occasionally, to sorrow. When on his way, therefore, to St. Helena, he was...

...if the attack is made, he may return." After another hour's deliberation, the opinion of Slangenberg prevailed, and it was unanimously decided that the...their means of defence.* Convinced that the case was nowirremediable, Marlborough quitted a spot which he had confidently hoped to illustrate by a victory...

...Such was Marlborough's chagrin at this disappointment, that he said, on retiring from the field, ' I am at this moment ten years older than I was four days ago.' " This conduct of the Dutchmen raised such a storm both in England and Holland, that it quickly cost...

...Such was Marlborough's chagrin at this disappointment, that he said, on retiring from the field, " I am at this moment ten years older than I was four days ago." Next day, as Marlborough had foreseen, the enemy had 25- strengthened their position with field-works,...