England's Ægis: Or, the Military Energies of the Empire |
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ancient arms-bearing articles of war artillery attack bayonet Bonaparte Britannic Spear burthen calculated called cause cavalry civil coast command common corps danger defence on right despotism district duty election enemy England English Constitution equally executive government exercise expense fighting France freedom full vigour gentlemen at arms gripe guard honour hundred thousand inch invaders invasion king kingdom land liberty Lord Liverpool means ment mercenary mili military branch military sub-division militia ministers necessary object observed occasion officers parliament patriotism peace pikes posse comitatus present preserve proposed reform render restore to full right hand right principles riot Saxon says Secretary at War shew Sir William Jones soldiers standing army statesmen statutes suppose sword system of defence tary taxes tion trained bands troops true trust vigour and energy volunteer weapon weapon-take whole word
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Page 120 - He threatened to spit men, and to roast them : and he killed some in cold blood, or rather in hot blood ; for he was then drunk, when he ordered one to be hanged, because he would not tell where his father was, for whom he was in search.
Page 63 - Without dividing, he destroyed party ; without corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France sunk beneath him. With one hand he smote the house of Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The sight of his mind was infinite ; and his schemes were to affect, not England, not the present age only, but Europe and posterity.
Page 121 - I had likewise in those days a mortal antipathy against standing armies in times of peace ; because I always took standing armies to be only servants hired by the master of the family, for keeping his own children in slavery.
Page 51 - The London trained bands, and auxiliary regiments, (of whose inexperience of danger, or any kind of service, beyond the easy practice of their postures in the Artillery Garden, men had till then too cheap an estimation,) behaved themselves to wonder ; and were, in truth, the preservation of that army that day.
Page 141 - ... the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it fell, and great was the fall of it.
Page 11 - And further it is commanded that every man have in his house harness for to keep the peace after the ancient assize ; that, is to say, every man between fifteen years of age and sixty years, shall be assessed and sworn to armour according to the quantity of their lands and goods ; that is to wit, from fifteen...
Page 122 - Thebans, Samnites, and Romans, none of them, when they kept their liberty, were ever known to maintain any soldier in constant pay within their cities, or ever suffered any of their subjects to make war their profession, well knowing that the sword and sovereignty always march hand in hand.
Page 16 - It is my deliberate (though private) " opinion, that the people of England will never be " a people, in the majestic sense of the word, unless " two hundred thousand of the civil state be ready, " before the first of next November, to take the field " without rashness or disorder, at twenty-four hours
Page 62 - No state chicanery, no narrow system of vicious politics, sunk him to the vulgar level of the great ; but, overbearing, persuasive, and impracticable, his object was England, his ambition was fame.
Page 144 - In the prosecution of the contest in which we are engaged, it shall be, as it has ever been, my first object to execute as becomes me, the great trust committed to my charge. " Embarked with my brave and loyal people in one common cause, it is my fixed determination, if the occasion should arise, to share their exertions and their dangers, in the defence of our constitution, our religion, our laws, and independence. To the activity and valour of my fleets and armies, to the zeal and unconquerable...