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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1763 edition. Excerpt: ...strictly with you. Q, Jt was the fault, first, of my most caprj capricious collegue, who never knew his own mind two days together, and who'had most imprudently tied himself" down by the molt solemn declarations to the public, of having neither place nor prosit for himself; which he afterwards cursed himself for, and, by the way, in his heart he loved them both better than ever you did. Then, of 'the wretched tools which we brought in with us, and which there was no working with. Your old tools, which, by he bye, were d--d blunt ones, would not trust me, and my new ones could not serve me. 0. That was pity, for you lost a fine, bloody, and expensive war by it, calculated for your great ideas. Tell me lioncllly, would you have made the last "war? G. Yes, by G--, would I. O. Would you have made the last peace? G.' No, I would have been hanged first. O. But we were told here, that you promoted and fostered it in council, G. That is false. I will tell you truly the whole of that affair. The scene was' now totally changed. A young minister, tit' net a young man, ivas on a suitkn bteeme omnipotent, by mere savour, without remarkable abilities, or tie haft degree of experience in bufintjs. However, by the presumption that always accompanies ignorance, he boldly undertook the whole machine; but, conjeious that he bad not credit fisticient to rarfr the supplies neleffary to continue the ivar, nor the abilities to cc.rry it en, he resolved at all events to mukc a state, 4tnd any peace rather than none. This he ivas imprudent enough to declare publicly, and France ivas msife enough to avail itself of that filly declarciic:: . And so the preliminaries of a peace were pre cipitately azd bungltng/y patched up. 1 /ton discovered, that...
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Genre | : |
Author | : George Alexander Stevens |
Publisher | : Rarebooksclub.com |
Release | : 2013-09 |
File | : 356 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 1230190619 |