 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1776 - 308 pages
...difapprobation of employing foreigners, particularly to fight our domeftic quarrels, than by quoting the opinion of that great man, Sir Walter Raleigh, in...revolted to the contrary part, to the utter ruin of thofe princes and ftates who have trailed them." My Lords, great ftrefs hath been laid, in the courfe... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1802 - 570 pages
...of foreign mercenaries. " They are feditious, " unfaithful, difobedient, devourers, and de" ftroyers of all places and countries, whither " they are drawn, as being held by no other " bond than their own com mod it}1". Yea, that " which is molt fearful among fuch hirelings " is, that they have often, and... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1810 - 484 pages
...Raleigh, in his Hiftory of the World, was quoted againft the employment . of foreign mercenaries. " They are feditious, unfaithful, difobedient, devourers...bond than their own commodity. Yea, that which is rnoft fearful among fuch hirelings is, that they have often, and in time of greateft extremity, not... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Guiana - 1820 - 618 pages
...seditious, unfaithful, disobedient ; devourers and destroyers of all places and countries whereinto they are drawn ; as being held by no other bond than their own commodity. Yea, that which is most fearful among such hirelings, is, that they have often, and in time of great extremity, not only... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1829 - 562 pages
...seditious, unfaithful, disobedient, devourers, and destroyers of all places and countries whereinto they are drawn ; as being held by no other bond than their own commodity. Yea, that which is most fearful among such hirelings is, that they have often, and in time of greatest extremity, not... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 688 pages
...of foreign mercenaries. " They are " seditious, unfaithful, disobedient devourers and de" stroyers of all places and countries whither they are " drawn,...bond than their " own commodity. Yea, that which is most fearful " among such hirelings is, that they have often, and " in time of greatest extremity,... | |
 | Kent Worcester, Sally A. Bermanzohn, Mark Ungar - Political Science - 2002 - 270 pages
...long reviled, in the words of Sir Walter Raleigh, as "seditious, unfaithful, disobedient destroyers of all places and countries whither they are drawn...being held by no other bond than their own commodity." 8 While gradually going the way of the duel, mercenaries in the modern era have lingered on the fringes... | |
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They are seditious, unfaithful, disobedient, devourers, and destroyers of all places and countries whereinto they are drawn ; as being held by no other bond than their own commodity. Yea, that which is most fearful among such hirelings is, that they have... 