 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...necessary to declare either for peace or war, and if peace cannot be preserved with honour, why is not war commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess,...maintain its just rights, though I know them not. — Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort — and, if we must... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...line of conduct, halt between two opinions, where there is no middle path. In God's name, if it is absolutely necessary to declare either for peace or...has still sufficient to maintain its just rights. But, my lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort ; and, if we must... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1811 - 536 pages
...lately the terror of the world, now fall "prostrate before the house of Bourbon ? It is impossible. " I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources...this kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to mainVol. II. B b CHAP. " tain its just rights, though I know them not ; and any ^ state, my lords,... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 766 pages
...lately the terror of the world, now fall prostrate before the house of Bourbon ? It is impossible. I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources...to maintain its just rights, though I know them not ; and any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort; and, if we must... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 748 pages
...lately the terror of the world, now fall prostrate before the house of Bourbon ? It is impossible. J am not, I confess, well informed of the resources...to maintain its just rights, though I know them not ; and any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort j and, if we must... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1816 - 834 pages
...terror of the "world, now fall prostrate before the house of Bourbon ? It ia '* impossible. I am not, 1 confess, well informed of the resources '* of this...; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain u its just rights, though I know them not ; and any state, my " lords, is better than despair. Let... | |
 | Edward Holt - Great Britain - 1820 - 520 pages
...terror of the world, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon ? It is impossible. lam not, I must confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom...maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my Lords, is better than despair. Let us, at least, make one effort, and, if we must fall,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1820 - 502 pages
...prostrate before' the house of Bourbon? It is xx" " impossible. I am not, I confess, well informed 1778. " of the resources of this kingdom ; but I trust it...maintain its just rights, " though I know them not; and any state, my lords, " is better than despair. Let us at least make one " effort ; and, if we must... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1822 - 824 pages
...lately the terror of the " world, now full prostrate before the house of Bourbon? It is " impossible. I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources...maintain " its just rights, though I know them not ; and any state, my " lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort; " and, if we... | |
 | Paul Allen - United States - 1822 - 536 pages
...Bourbon ? It is impossible. I am not, 1 confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but 1 trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. — Any state, my Lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make an effort — and, if we must... | |
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... commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least... 
