| Samuel Johnson - Falkland Islands - 1771 - 84 pages
...impoverifhed ; they rejoice when obftinacy. or ambition adds another year to (laughter and devaftation ; and laugh from their defies at bravery and fcience, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract: from a new armament, and computing the profits of a fiege... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to flaughter and devaftationj and laugh from their defks at bravery and fcience, •while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a fiege... | |
| 436 pages
...adds another year to ilaughter and d«vaftation ; and laugh from their defks at bravery and icience, while they are adding figure to' fi,gure, and cypher to cypher, hoping for a new contracl from a new armament, and computing the profits of a fiege or tempeft. Of victory indeed every... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1793 - 656 pages
...another year " to flaughter, and devaluation ; and laugh from their defks at " bravery and feience, while they are adding figure to figure, " and cypher to cypher, hoping for a new contract from a " new armament, and computing the profits of a fiege or " tempefh" " Thefe," faid Mr. Erfkine,... | |
| Carl Bernhard Wadström - Africa - 1794 - 626 pages
...when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to flaughter and devaflation ; and laugh from their defks at bravery and fcience, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contra 61 for a new armament, and computing the profits of a fiege... | |
| Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - Europe - 1795 - 476 pages
...ambition adds another year to naughter and devaftation; who laugh from their cSciks at bravery andfcience, while they are adding figure to figure, and cypher...cypher, hoping for a new contract for a new armament, andcomputing the profits of a fiege or a tempeft. The fighting fanatics arc not much more praife worthy,... | |
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...adds another year to slaughter and devastation ; and laugh from their desks at bravery and science, while they are. adding figure to figure, and cypher to cypher, hoping for a new contract from a new arn;?.mept,. aad computing., the profits, of a siege or tempest; ...-i : " JOHN sow. Faulk/atid... | |
| James Anderson - Agriculture - 1800 - 632 pages
...instruments of death; yet we are told .of .men who have made themselves so exceedingly deaf, as to add " figure to figure, and cypher to cypher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or a tempest."* I might now proceed to compliment... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to Slaughter and devaftation ; and laugh from their defks at bravery and fcience, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a fiege... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to flaughter and devaftation ; and laugh from their defks at bravery and fcience, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and conv puting the profits of a fiege... | |
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