 Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest, that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon? Surely, my Lords, this nation is no longer what it was! Shall a people that seventeen years ago was...  Dedham Historical Register - Page 1341896Full view - About this book
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 460 pages
...the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, the Norman conquest — that has stood the threatening invasion of the Spanish Armada, now fall prostrate...was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, Take all we have, only give us peace f It is impossible. "In God's... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - 1896 - 730 pages
...out his broken sentences — ' shreds of unconnected eloquence.' 'Shall a people,' he exclaimed, ' that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, Take all we have, only give us peace ? . . . . My lords, any state... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 464 pages
...whole and entire, the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, the Norman Conquest — that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now...what it was! Shall a people that seventeen years ago were the terror of the world now stoop so low as to tell their ancient inveterate enemy, Take all we... | |
 | John Watson Foster - 1900 - 540 pages
...and entire the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquests, that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now...Lords, this nation is no longer what it was. Shall such a people, that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its... | |
 | John Watson Foster - 1900 - 540 pages
...prostrate before the House of Bourbon ? Surely, my Lords, this nation is no longer what it was. Shall such a people, that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient, inveterate enemy — take all we have, only give us peace ? It is impossible." 1... | |
 | Walter Rowlands - 1901 - 644 pages
...whole and entire, the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, the Norman conquest — that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now...was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, Take all we have, only give us peace f It is impossible ! 1 38 The... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 428 pages
...and entire, the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest, that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now...was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient, inveterate enemy, • Take all we have, only give us peace ? It is impossible ! I... | |
 | Walford Davis Green - 1901 - 488 pages
...nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions ? Shall this great kingdom now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon ? Surely,...nation is no longer what it was ! Shall a people that fifteen years ago was the terror of the world now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 564 pages
...and entire, the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest — that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada — now fall prostrate before the house of Bourbon ? " " My lords," he concluded, "any state is better than despair. Let us, at least, make one effort,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 428 pages
...and entire, the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest, that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now...was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient, inveterate enemy, ' Take all we have, only give us peace ? It is impossible ! I wage... | |
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