 | Tobias Smollett - 1759 - 478 trang
...ambition of France, fecured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory to his chariot wheels, was in a few weeks dwindled into an object of contempt...extortion ; his infolence, cruelty, ambition* and mifconduct : even his courage was called in queftion, and this confummate general was reprefented as... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 594 trang
...of France, fecured«the liberty of Europe, and, as it wer$, chained victory to his chariot wheels, was in a few weeks dwindled into an object of contempt and derifion. He was ridiculed in publick libels, and reviled in private converfation. Inflances were every where repeated of his fraud,... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 582 trang
...such a number of towns and districts, humbled the pride and checked the ambition of France, secured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory to his chariot wheels, was in a few weeks dwindled into an object of contempt and derision. He was ridiculed... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 578 trang
...such a number of towns and districts, humbled the pride and checked the ambition of France, secured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory to his chariot wheels, was in a few weeks dwindled into an object of contempt and derision. He was ridiculed... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 trang
...such a number of towns and districts, humbled the pride, and checked the ambition of France, secured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory to his chariot wheels, was, in a few weeks, dwindled into an object of contempt and derision. He was ridiculed... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 trang
...ambition of France, secured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory to his chariot wheels, was, in a few weeks, dwindled into an object of contempt and derision. He was ridiculed in public libels, and reviled in private conversation. Instances were every... | |
 | William Coxe - 1819 - 734 trang
...such a number of towns and districts, humbled the pride and checked the ambition of France, secured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory to his chariot wheels, was, in a few weeks, dwindled into an object of contempt and derision. He was ridiculed... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1822 - 512 trang
...such a number of towns and districts, humbled the pride and checked the ambition of France, secured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory...few weeks dwindled into an object of contempt and derision. He was ridiculed in public libels, and reviled in private conversation. Instances were every... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - 1824 - 568 trang
...supported so nobly the glory of England, humbled the pride and checked the ambition of France, secured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory to his chariot-wheels. Of Marlborough it has been justly observed, that he 'never laid siege to a town which he did not take,... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 512 trang
...such a number of towns and districts, humbled the pride and checked the ambition of France, secured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory...few weeks dwindled into an object of contempt and derision. He was ridiculed in public libels, and reviled in private conversation. Instances were every... | |
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British arms, won so many battles, subdued such a number of towns and districts, humbled the pride and checked the ambition of France, secured the liberty of Europe, and, as it were, chained victory to his chariot wheels, was in a few weeks dwindled into... 
