 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
 | Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 520 pàgines
...respect, the warmest love, for the British troops. Their situation is truly unworthy ; penned up—pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army of impotence....disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation. But I find a report creeping abroad, that the Ministers censure General Gage's inactivity; let them... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 644 pàgines
...respect, the warmest love, for the British troops. Their situation is truly unworthy ; penn'd 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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 pàgines
...respect, the warmest love, for the British troops. Their situation is truly unworthy ; penn'd 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 pàgines
...the British troops. Their situation is truly unworthy ; penned up — pining in inglorious activity. They are an army of impotence. You may call them an...disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation." He then went on to say that activity would be even worse than this inglorious inactivity, and that... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pàgines
...Their situation is truly unworthy ; penned up — pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army vf impotence. You may call them an army of safety and...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... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 688 pàgines
...unworthy ; penned up — pining in in" glorious inactivity ; they are an army of impotence : " vou may ca^ them an army of safety and of guard ; " but they are, in truth, an army of impotence and 1775. " contempt : and, to make the folly equal to the dis" grace, they are an army of irritation and... | |
 | 1845 - 554 pàgines
...Their situation is truly unworthy ; penned up — pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army vf impotence. You may call them an army of safety and...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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 pàgines
...Their situation is truly unworthy ; penned up — pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army vf impotence. You may call them an army of safety and...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... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pàgines
...troops at Boston 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 disgrace, they were an army of irritation. After stating that the Americans had been " abused, misrepresented, and... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 pàgines
...highest 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... | |
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