 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,...  Eminent British Lawyers - Page 289by Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Beaumont - War - 1808 - 218 pages
...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise' like exhalations....rejoice when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to the slaughter and devastation ; and laugh from their desks at bravery and science, while they are adding... | |
 | Great Britain - 1808 - 348 pages
...sovereign detestation.— " These are the men," Dr. Johnson well observed, " who, without virtue, labor, hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoverished;...laugh from their desks at bravery and science, while the)7 are adding figure to figure, and cypher to cypher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations...science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations...adds; another year to slaughter and devastation ; and Jaugh from their desks at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations...from their desks at bravery and science, while they arc adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations ? t .*.,.,., These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or...science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations...science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 424 pages
...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations...science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege... | |
 | Peace - 1821 - 388 pages
...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations ! These are the men who, without yiftue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoverished ; they rejoice when obstinacy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 572 pages
...paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palacjes rise like exhalations? These are the men who, without...science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege... | |
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