| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 pages
...his great foresight and Kiigacity.f " My Lords," continued Chatham, " you can" not conquer America. You may swell every expense " and every effort still more extravagantly ; pile nmt " accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; " traffic and barter with every little pitiful... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...expense, and strain every effort, still more extravagantly ; accumulate everj assistance you can beg or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful...and sends his. subjects to the shambles of a foreign country : your efforts are forever vain and impotent, — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which... | |
| Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 872 pages
...leaned upon his crutches and poured forth a torrent of eloquent invective and denunciation. " You may pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or...the shambles of a foreign power ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent ; doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely, for it irritates... | |
| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1860 - 528 pages
...retired from the American lines. ... As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense and every effort still...can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every pitiful little German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...therefore, my Lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense and every effort still more 5 extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign despot ; your efforts are forevei vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on 10 which... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...are not finally repealed. You may swell every expence, and every effort, still more extra va gantly pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and harter with every little pitiful German prince , that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles... | |
| Orator - 1864 - 186 pages
...lament, what may have happened since. As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foriegn prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent : doubly so from this mercenary aid on... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 pages
...English America is an impossibility. You cannot — I venture to say it — you cannot conquer America ! You may swell every expense and every effort still...extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance that you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little, pitiful German prince that sells... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1866 - 524 pages
...conquer America. In three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense, accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow,...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are forever vain and impotent, doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1866 - 518 pages
...conquer America. In three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense, accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow,...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are forever vain and impotent, doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you... | |
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