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The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Or, Illustrations, by Pen and ... - Page 84
by Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 30 pages
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The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King ..., Volume 2

John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 688 pages
...know that in " three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered " much. Conquest is impossible : you may swell every " expense, and every effort still...with every little pitiful " German prince that sells his subjects to foreign sham*' bles ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent; " doubly so from...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 113

American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...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...
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Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated ..., Volume 3

Great Britain - 1845 - 554 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...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent: doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added, the ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 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...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent : doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you...
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The Cabinet History of England: Being an Abridgment, by the ..., Volumes 19-20

Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 472 pages
...Continuing his vaticination that the struggle, however prolonged, must end in our defeat, he exclaimed — " You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ! Your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Great Britain - 1848 - 208 pages
...October 16, 1777. The intelligence of this defeat did not reach England until the beginning of December. may swell every expense, and every effort, still more...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign country ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which...
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The Pictorial History of the United States of America: From the ..., Volumes 1-4

John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...of German mercenaries to overcome the spirit of American liberty, the eloquent orator exclaimed, " You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...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...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 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...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent: doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you...
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The cabinet history of England, an abridgment of the chapters entitled ...

Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 466 pages
...his vaticination, that the struggle, however prolonged, must end in our defeat, he exclaimed — " You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ! Your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which...
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The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military, and ..., Volume 10

Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 468 pages
...Continuing his vaticination that the struggle, however prolonged, must end in our defeat, he exclaimed — " You may swell every expense, and every effort, still...and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ! Your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which...
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