...the night, determining to wait for a fair day. The rest of us, who, like the King of Spain with his twenty thousand men, " marched up the hill and then — marched down again," embarked at 4 o'clock, and scudded back before the wind to Naples, happy to escape from scenes of intoxication,...

...him for some useful institutions ? CHAPTER XXII. CHARLES VIII. SURNAMED THE AFFABLE AND COURTEOUS. The king of France, with twenty thousand men, Marched up the hill, and then marched down again. OLD PROVERB. AD 1. CHARLES had reached his fourteenth year, the 1483. legal.age of majority, at the...

...Sandford (the renegado) got up m the midst of them delirious with joy. But, as the old couplet says, — " The King of France, with twenty thousand men, Marched up the hill, but he came doan again. " And so, when the day of polling arrived, the great and mighty Plumpers, of...

...Oh, dear! how heroic. — Yes, "to the mountains" today, to come hack to this den to-morrow, like " the King of France, with twenty thousand men, marched up the hill, and then marched down again. No— now, or never — act like a man, or I'll chusscy the affair. With such a bribe as you can oder,...

...foxes in England. (To le continued). YACHTING. ,, FINISH OF THE SEASON. BY A MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN. ' The King of France, with twenty thousand men, Marched...up the hill — and then — marched down again." " Grim-visaged war hath smoothed" — rough Chobham'a wilds with boots of patent polish, hoof of "...

...government service.' — Massie, vol. ip 2?8. With facts like these engraven upon our minds, the finesi speeches in parliament about ' our venerable religion,'...which Lord William Bentinck passed, previously to hig departure from India, was the abolition of flogging in the native army. Never I am sure did it...

...did not plod our way to London upon the principles of sameness adopted by that King of France who, with twenty thousand men, ' Marched up the hill, and then marched down again ;' for, in many instances, we varied both from the regular route, and the devious track we had already...

...of the fort to meet the enemy, more than three to one. They were in earnest ; unlike the sight when "The king of France with twenty thousand men Marched up the hill and then marched down again." They knew that they must fight and conquor, or die. Col. Z. Butler commanded one wing of the little...

...the fort to meet the enemy, more than three to one. They were in earnest ; unlike the sight when " The king of France with twenty thousand men Marched up the hill and then marched down again." They knew that they must fight and conquor, or die. Col. Z. Butler commanded one wing of the little...

...character. He was not one of that description of warriors to whom the trite satire could apply : — " The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again." He had however those about him who gathered up the " sweepings" of his mind, and who expected him to...