 | John Campbell - 1842 - 512 էջ
...by victory ; he might show his gains without envy. But, at the conclusion of a long war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes, and the expense...glories of pay-masters and agents, contractors and commissioners, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose * Williams, p. 112. palaces rise like... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 էջ
...victory, he might show his gains without envy. But at the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we l o". o". xo". t OUTER GOLDSMITH. The ' Citizen of the World,' by GOLDSMITH, was published in a collected shape in... | |
 | William Lyon Mackenzie - 1845 - 494 էջ
...devastation from which the mind recoils with horror. " At the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the " death of multitudes and the...paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equi" pages shine like meteors, and wnose palaces rise like exhalations?" After Napoleon's glorious... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 էջ
...exhausted, for the most part, with little effect At the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes and the expense...like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations ? " The grandiloquent strut of some of these sentences does not accord very well with the simpler taste... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 548 էջ
...exhausted, for the most part, with little effect At the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes and the expense...like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations ? " 248 The Oregon Question. [Jan. The grandiloquent strut of some of these sentences does not accord... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 546 էջ
...exhausted, for the most part, with little effect At the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes and the expense...like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations ? " The grandiloquent strut of some of these sentences does not accord very well with the simpler taste... | |
 | William Lyon Mackenzie - 1846 - 328 էջ
...devastation from which the mind recoils with horror. " At the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the "death of multitudes and the expense...paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equi" pages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations?" After Napoleon's glorious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 էջ
...nl the conclusion of a ten years' •war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes and die expense of millions, but by contemplating the sudden...paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipigcs shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations? These are the men who, without... | |
 | William Lyon Mackenzie - 1846 - 332 էջ
...At the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed forthe " death of multitudes and ihe expense of millions but by contemplating the sudden...paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equi" pages shine like meteors, and wnose palaces rise like exhalations?" After Napoleon's glorious... | |
 | George Cone Beckwith - 1847 - 264 էջ
...recompensed for the death of multitudes, and the expense of millions, by contemplating the s_udden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and...exhalations ? These are the men who, without virtue, labor or hazard, grow rich as their country is impoverished. They rejoice when obstinacy or ambition... | |
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But at the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes and the expense of millions, but by contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors,... 
