Instead of gathering strength, either as a Ministry or as a party, we grew weaker every day. The peace had been judged, with reason, to be the only solid foundation whereupon we could erect a Tory system; and yet when it was made we found ourselves at... History of Queen Anne - الصفحة 231بواسطة Jonathan Swift - 1801عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount), Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...foundation whereupon we could erect a tory system : and yet when it was made we found ourselves at a full stand. Nay the very work, which ought to have been...basis of our strength, was in part demolished before pur eyes ami we were stoned with the ruins of it. Whilst jhis was doing, Oxford looked on, as if he... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...grew weaker every day. The peace had been judged with reason to he the only solid foundation whereupon we could erect a tory system: and yet when it was made we found ourselves at a full stand. Nay the very work, which ought to have been the basis of our strength, \yas in p art demolished... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...afterwards. " The peace," says he, " which had been judged to be the only solid foundation •whereupon we could erect a Tory system, and yet when it was...of our strength, was in part demolished before our eyesj and we were stoned with the ruins of it." This event probably rendered the disunion of the ministry... | |
| Earl John Russell Russell - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...of commerce; and the peace, falling into disrepute, helped to destroy the ministry who had made it. "The very work which ought to have been the basis of our strength," says Bolingbroke, " was in part demolished before our eyes, and we were stoned with the ruins of it.... | |
| John Russell (1st earl.) - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...commerce ; and the peace, falling into disrepute, helped to destroy the ministry who had made it. " The very work which ought to have been the basis of our strength," says Bolingbroke, " was in part demolished before our eyes, and we were stoned with the ruins of it.... | |
| George Wingrove Cooke - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...grew weaker every day. The peace had been judged with reason to be the only solid foundation whereupon we could erect a Tory system, and yet when it was made we found ourselves at a full stand ; nay, the very work which ought to have been the basis of our strength was in part demolished... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...foundation whereupon we could erect a tory system: and yet when it was made we found ourselves at a full stand. Nay, the very work which ought to have been...our eyes, and we were stoned with the ruins of it. Whilst this was doing, Oxford looked on, as if he had not been a party to all which had passed; broke... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...grew weaker every day. The peace had been judged with reason to be the only solid foundation whereupon we could erect a tory system: and yet when it was made we found ourselves at a full stand. Nay the very work, which ought to have been the basis of our strength, was in part demolished... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...grew weaker every day. The peace had been judged with reason to be the only solid foundation whereupon we could erect a tory system: and yet when it was made we found ourselves at a full stand. Nay the very work, which ought to have been the basis of our strength, was in part demolished... | |
| William Charles Townsend - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...hurtful as his indolence. No good effect could flow from such a conduct. The very work (the peace) which ought to have been the basis of our strength,...our eyes, and we were stoned with the ruins of it ! Whilst this was doing, Oxford looked on, as if he had not been a party to all that had passed, broke... | |
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