 German despot: your attempts will be for ever vain and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to over-run them with the mercenary sons of...  A poetical grammar of the English language - Page 78by Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855Full view - About this book
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...know, that in three campaigns, we have done nothing, and suBered much. You may swell every expense, and accumulate every assistance, and extend your traffic...shambles of every German despot : your attempts will be forever vain, and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid, on which you rely ; for... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 398 pages
...extend your traflic to the shambles of every fiennan despot : your attempts will he forever vain, ami impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary...which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable reecntment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine, and plunder,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...that in three campaigns, we have done nothing, and suffered much. You may swell every expense, and accumulate every assistance, and extend your traffic...shambles of every German despot : your attempts will be forever vain, ana impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid, on which you rely ; for... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...is contained a series of concessions, uniformly requires the emphatic rising inflexion, EXAMPLES. " You may sw'ell every expe'nse, accumulate every assi'stance, and extend your tra'ffic/ to the sham'bles-of every German des"pot ; your attempts will be for ever va'in and im potent."* " Pai'nting,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 472 pages
...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 rely, for it...irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...situation there ? We do not know the worst : but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much. You may swell every expense, accumulate...them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...situation there ] We do not know the worst ; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much. You may swell every expense, accumulate...them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...situation there ? We do not know the worst : but we know, that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much. You may swell every expense, accumulate...them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...there? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suflered much. You may swell every expense, accumulate every...shambles of every German despot ; your attempts will be forever vain and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Great Britain - 1848 - 208 pages
...subjects to the shambles of a foreign country ; 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, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder ; devoting them and their... | |
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