 | 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,...the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are forever vain and impotent, doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely, for it irritates to... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 446 pages
...my reputation on it : — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. You may swell every expence, and every effort, still...barter with every little pitiful German prince, that selis and sends his subjects to the shambles of a fureign prince; your efforts are for ever vain and... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 442 pages
...reputation on it : — I will consent to be takeii for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. You may swell every expence, and every effort, still...accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; tiaffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends bis subjects to... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...impossibility. You can not, I venture to say it, you can not conquer America ! 4. You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly ; pile and...the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are forever vain and impotent— doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...expense, and strain every effort, still more extravagantly; accumulate every 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 im'potent, — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Vice-Presidents - 1868 - 528 pages
...* * " As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly ; pile and...with every little pitiful German prince that sells his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are forever vain and impotent — doubly... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...since. As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat it, it is impossible. You may swell every expense and every effort, still more extravagantly ; pile...traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince,1 that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are for... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly ; pile...foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent ; doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely. For it irritates, to an incurable resentment,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1870 - 340 pages
...expense, and strain every effort, still more extravagantly ; accumulate every 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 im'potent, — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. , ' You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly pile and...foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it irritates, to an incurable... | |
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You may swell every expence, and every effort, still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign... 
