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" Indies, belonging to a private company, whose existence had been deemed prejudicial to the commonwealth. What then were the fruits which Britain reaped from this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure '', disgrace upon disgrace,... "
The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 165
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The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 8

James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1792 - 386 pages
..." long and desperate war? A dreadful expence of " blood and treasure, disgrace upon disgrace, an " additional load of grievous impositions, and the -...least, five hundred thousand lives, and two hundred millions sterling. As the total reward of these murtherous and convulsive efforts, we had obtained,...
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The History of England: From the Revolution to the Death of George the ...

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 576 pages
...this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure,' disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national...accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling. t Such an expensive war could not be maintained without a very extraordinary exertion of a commereial...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to ..., Volume 10

David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 572 pages
...this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure,1 disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national...accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling. t Such an expemive war could not be maintained without a very extraordinary exertion of a commercial...
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The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death ..., Volume 3

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1822 - 494 pages
...this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure,11 disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national...accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling. BOOK III.- CHAP. I. fl. Reflections on the peace — 5f II. The prince of Wales's adherents join the...
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 11

David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 488 pages
...this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure,11 disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national...accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling. 11 Such an expensive war could not be maintained without a very extraordinary exertion of a commercial...
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The Life and Correspondence of the Late Admiral Lord Rodney, Volume 1

Godfrey Basil Mundy - Admirals - 1830 - 526 pages
...strug" gle ?— a dreadful expense of blood and " treasure, disgrace upon disgrace ; an addi" tional load of grievous impositions, and the " national debt accumulated to the enormous " sum of eight millions sterling." A congress was held at Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748, and a peace was concluded on...
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Life of Rodney

Godfrey Basil Mundy - 1836 - 316 pages
...long and desperate struggle?—a dreadful expense of blood and treasure, disgrace upon disgrace; an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national...to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling." A congress was held at Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748, and a peace was concluded on terms not a little disgraceful...
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The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death ..., Volume 2

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1836 - 840 pages
...this long and desperate war? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure (1), disgrace on disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of so.000.000/. sterling. CHAPTER XXI. GEORGE II. (CONTINUED.)— 1748. I. Reflections on the peace—...
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The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George ...

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1844 - 986 pages
...expense of blood and treasure, [See Note QQ, at the end of this Vol.] disgrace upon disgrace, and an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national...accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling. NOTES TO CHAPTER VI. 1 In the month of July, Philip king of Spain dying, in the •uty third year of...
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The history of England from the Revolution to the death of George ..., Volume 2

Tobias George Smollett - 1848 - 566 pages
...this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure '', disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national...accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling. d Such an expensive war could not be maintained without a very extraordinary exertion nf a commercial...
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