 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 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...consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers and speakers - 1871 - 346 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 kn'potent, — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...since. As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. 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,... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 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... | |
 | Readers - 1872 - 514 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 impotent, — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...expence, and every effort, still more extraj vagantly pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy o( borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful...German prince,; that sells and sends his subjects to thé shambles of a foreign prince] your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 pages
...colours, the ruin that is brought to our doors. • • • • • ' You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly ; pile...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... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 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 impotent, — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 438 pages
...and accumulate every assistance you 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; your efforts are forever vain and impotent. If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 pages
...since. As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. 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, to... | |
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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... 
