 Indies, belonging to a private company, whose existence had been deemed prejudicial to the commonwealth. What then were the fruits which Britain reaped from this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure '', disgrace upon disgrace,...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Pàgina 165editat per - 1792Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 568 pàgines
...this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure d, disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national...accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling. d Such an expensive war could not be maintained without a very extraordinary exertion of a commercial... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 538 pàgines
...this long and desperate war .' A dreadful expense of blood and treasure,i9 disgrace on digrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of £80,000,000 sterling. i9 Such an expensive war could not be maintained without a very extraordinary... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 462 pàgines
...a vehement philippic against the government ; and that philippic ends with the tremendous words, " the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling." Page 264, line 40, note. I have said that Burke, alone among his contemporaries, was superior to the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 440 pàgines
...with a vehement philippic against the government; and that philippic ends with the tremendous words, " the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling." through the national debt. It was idle, however, now to talk about the road : we had done with the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 440 pàgines
...with a vehement philippic against the government; and that philippic ends with the tremendous words, " the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling." through the national debt. It was idle, however, now to talk about the road : we had done with the... | |
 | George Clayton Swiney - 1893 - 444 pàgines
...this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure, disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the National...to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling.* Such is the historian Smollett's opinion, but had he lived in our time, he would probably have considerably... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 600 pàgines
...a vehement philippic against the government ; and that philippic ends with the tremendous words, " the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling." 2See a very remarkable note in Hume's History of England, Appendix III. warned his countrymen not to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 588 pàgines
...wlth a vehement philippic against the government ; and that philippic ends with the tremendous words, "the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling." warned his countrymen not to repeat so hazardous an experiment. The limit had been reached. Even a... | |
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