| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 páginas
...Continuing his vaticination that the struggle, however prolonged, must end in our defeat, he exclaimed — " You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...with every little pitiful German prince, that sells arid sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince : your efforts are for ever vain and impotent... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 páginas
...and distant plan of operations. We shall soon know, and in any event have reason to lament, what may have happened since. As to conquest, therefore, my...impossible. You may swell every expense, and every eflort, still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 350 páginas
...undone." Again, in 1777, after describing the course of the war, and " the traffic and barter driven with every little pitiful German prince, that sells his subjects to the shambles of a foreign country,"—he adds—" The mercenary aid on which you rely, irritates, to an incurable resentment,... | |
| 1872 - 862 páginas
...envelope it; and display, in its full danger and true colours, the ruin that is brought to our doors. "You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little German Prince, — your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid... | |
| 1845 - 554 páginas
...and distant plan of operations. We shall soon know, and in any event have reason to lament, what may have happened since. As to conquest, therefore, my...with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent:... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 páginas
...and distant plan of operations. We shall soon know, and in any event have reason to lament, what may have happened since. As to conquest, therefore, my...with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 páginas
...Continuing his vaticination that the struggle, however prolonged, must end in our defeat, he exclaimed — " You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ! Your efforts are for ever vain and impotent... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 páginas
...and distant plan of operations. We shall soon know, and in any event have reason to lament, what may have happened since. As to conquest, therefore, my Lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You * Lord Amherst. t Under General Burgoyne. This prediction of the total Ion of General Bourgoyne's army... | |
| 1851 - 560 páginas
...and distant plan of operations. We shall soon know, and in any event have reason to lament, what may have happened since. As to conquest, therefore, my...with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent:... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 594 páginas
...much and gained nothing, and perhaps at this moment the northern army (Burgoyne's) may be a total loss You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign power ; your efforts are forever vain and impotent... | |
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