 The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the...  The Edinburgh Review - Sida 2321842Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1846 - 818 sidor
...were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of Canada ;" the scattered villages of New England were laid in ashes by the savages, men butehered, children... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 sidor
...many years and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The...Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Groat Lakes of North America. Silesia had been occupied without a battle ; but the Austrian troops... | |
 | 1857 - 758 sidor
...years, and in every quarter of the globe. The blood of the column of Fontenoy — the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The...neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought upon the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes in North America."... | |
 | 1858 - 516 sidor
...wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and in order that he might rob whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...scalped each other by the great lakes of North America." The author of such calamities must be justly reckoned among the scourges and curses of mankind. That... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 sidor
...by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that ho might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, imd red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America. Silesia had been occupied without... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1862 - 360 sidor
...was war in all parts of the world. " The evils produced by his wickedness," says Macaulay, "were'felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and,...scalped each other by the great lakes of North America." Frederic's first battle was at Molwitz, where he neither manifested generalship nor courage. His army... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1863 - 344 sidor
...were the days when, because European Kings had fallen out with each other in the middle of Germany, " black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red...scalped each other by the great lakes of North America." They were the days when Adam Smith bitterly complained of the expense and uselessness of the Colonies,... | |
 | 1865 - 550 sidor
...many years and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The...scalped each other by the great lakes of North America." i The beginning of strife is like the letting out of waters. It is a terrible question, —At whose... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1865 - 596 sidor
...were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped by the great lakes of North America."4 1 Proceedings of the court martial, vide Gentleman's Magazine,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 sidor
...many years and in every quarter of the globe ; the blood of the column at Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The...scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. 4. THE FALL OF THE MOGUL EMPIRE. (FROM THE SAME WOEK.) SUCH, or nearly such, was the change which passed... | |
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