| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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