 Their situation is truly unworthy, penned up— pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army of impotence. You may call them an army of safety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt; and, to make the folly equal to...  The History of England - Pàgina 177per Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1782 - 434 pàgines
...troops at Bofton as truly unworthy, being penned up, and pining in inglorious inactivity, he called them an army of impotence and contempt, and to make the folly equal to the difgrace, they .were an army of irritation and vexation ; " you irritate your Colenies to unappeafable... | |
 | John Almon - 1792 - 458 pàgines
...refpe£t, the warmeft love, for the Britifti troops. Their fituation is truly unworthy; penned up—pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army , of impotence. You may call them an army of fafety and of guard ; but they are in truth an army of impotencej^nd contempt: and, to.make the-folly... | |
 | John Almon - 1793 - 542 pàgines
...refpeft, ' the warmelt love, for the Britilh troops. ' Their fituation is truly unworthy ; penn'd ' up— pining in inglorious inactivity. They ' are an army of impotence. You may call « them an army of fafety and of guard; but * they are in truth an army of impotence ' and contempt: and, to make the... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 496 pàgines
...their situation, pining in inglorious inactivity. You may call them an army of safety and of defence, but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt...disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation. Ailay then the ferment prevailing in America, by removing the obnoxious hostile cause. If you delay... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 374 pàgines
...their fituation, pining in inglorious inactivity. You may call them an army of fafety and of defence, but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt; and to make the folly equal to the difgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation. Allay then the ferment prevailing in America,... | |
 | John Almon - 1797 - 440 pàgines
...the Britifh troops: Their fituation is truly unworthy; penn'd up-—pining in inglorious inaftivity; They are an army of impotence. You may call them an army of fafety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt: and, to make the folly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pàgines
...higheft refpe&, the warmeft love, for the Britifh troops. Their fituation is truly unworthy; penned up, pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army of impotence. You may call them an army of fafety and of guard, but they are, in truth, an army of impo* tence and contempt, and, to make the... | |
 | Hugh Boyd - 1800 - 638 pàgines
...Britifh troops. — Their fitnation is truly unworthy; penned up — pining in inglorious ina&ivity. They are an army of impotence : — you may call them an army of fafety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and con-, tempt: and, to make the folly... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1802 - 570 pàgines
...fpeer, the warmeft love, for the Brit ilh troops. " Their fituation is truly unworthy; penned " up — pining in inglorious inactivity. They " are an army of impotence: you may call " them an army of fafety and of guard; but " they are in truth, an army of impotence and "contempt: and to make the folly... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pàgines
...respect, the warmest love for the British troops. Their situation is truly unworthy ; penned up — pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army...disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation. But I find a report creeping abroad, that ministers censure general Gage's inactivity. Let them censure... | |
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