 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 340 pàgines
...where it was highly impolitick to enlarge our conquests; utterly neglecting that part, which would have saved and gained us many millions; which the...Spain subdued, by employing our whole strength upon i landers ? Did they believe the last war left us in a condition to furnish such vast supplies for... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 544 pàgines
...where it was highly impolitick to enlarge our conquests ; utterly neglecting that part, which would have saved and gained us many millions ; which the...whole strength upon Flanders? Did they believe the iasv war left us in a condition to furnish such vast supplies for so long a period, without involving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 544 pàgines
...where it was highly impolitick to enlarge our conquests ; utterly neglecting that part; which would have saved and gained us many millions ; which the...employing our whole strength upon Flanders? Did they believd the last war left us in a condition to furnish such, vast supplies for so long a period, without... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 360 pàgines
...where it was highly impolitic to enlarge our conquests ; utterly neglecting that part, which would have saved and gained us many millions; which the...just expiring with all sorts of good symptoms. Did tbe advisers of M 3 this war suppose it would continue ten years, without ex> pecting the successes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 442 pàgines
...fond of continuing the war, cry up our. constant success at a most prodigious rate, and reckon ifc infinitely greater, than in all human probability...Spain subdued, by employing our whole strength upon Flauders ? Did they believe the last war left us iu a condition to furnish such vast supplies for so... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1916 - 208 pàgines
...soonest weakned the Enemy, and must either have promoted a speedy Peace, or enabled us to go on with the War. Those who are fond of continuing the War,...Advisers of this War suppose it would continue Ten 10 Years, without expecting the Successes we have had ; and yet at the same time determine, that France... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1923 - 312 pàgines
...lavished, in ceaseless generosity, upon the Allies. ' Ten glorious campaigns are passed,' wrote Swift, ' and now at last, like the sick man, we are just expiring with all sorts of good symptoms.' Or, to use another image, when a town was taken by our armies in Flanders, it was handed over to the... | |
 | Sir Herbert William Richmond - 1928 - 384 pàgines
...promised a speedy peace or enabled us to go on with the war.' With bitter irony the Dean remarks : ' Ten glorious campaigns are passed and now at last,...subdued by employing our whole strength upon Flanders ? ' The troops of our first quota, in co-operation with those of the Emperor and the Dutch, were ample... | |
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... the perpetual maxims of our government teach us to pursue ; which would have soonest weakened the enemy, and must either have promoted a speedy peace, or enabled us to continue the war. Those who are fond of continuing the war, cry up our constant... 