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
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...commiflaries, whofe equipages frrine like meteors, and whofe palaces rife like exhalations ? Thefe are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, ,are growing rich as their country is impoverifhed ; they rejoice when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to flaughter and devaftationj... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...and commiflaries, whofe equipages fhine like meteors, and whofe palaces rife like exhalations ? Thefe are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are' growing rich as their country is impoverifhed; they rejoice when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to Daughter and devaftation... | |
| 436 pages
...aud-Contmiffaries, whofe equipages fhinc like meteors, and whofe Palaces rife like exhalations. TLefc are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoverifhed ; they rejoice when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to ilaughter and d«vaftation... | |
| Carl Bernhard Wadström - Africa - 1794 - 626 pages
...terms, v .— ; by any adminiflration." Johnson's. ' 119- " Thefe are the men,1' fays Dr. Johnfon, "who, without virtue, labour or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoveriftied. They rejoice when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to flaughter and devaflation... | |
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations....are growing rich as their country is impoverished ; tl'ey rejoice when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation ; and laugh... | |
| Universalism - 1800 - 490 pages
...through realms their valour saved ! while too many who are conversant *nly in ihe knavery of war, and without virtue, labour, or hazard,' are •growing rich as their country is impoverishing ; and their infamies rewarded at length by equipages that shine like meteors, and palates... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...comrnhTaries, whofe equipages fhine like -like meteors, and whgfe palaces rife like exhalations ? Thefe are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoverifhed; they rejoice when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to Slaughter and devaftation... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...commiflaries, whofe equipages fhine like meteors, and whofe, palaces rife like exhalations ? Thefe are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoverifhed; they rejoice when obftinacy or ambition adds another year to flaughter and devaftation... | |
| Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...comtniffioners, whofe equipages /hine like meteors, and whofe palaces rife like exhalations ? Theft rtre the rm n who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoverifhed; they rejoice when obliinacy or yrbition adds another year to flaughter and devaluation... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations....and science, while they are adding figure to figure, aud cipher to cjpher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a... | |
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