 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1859 - 820 pages
...When Buckingham urged 'the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined,...country's ruin — I will die in the last ditch." Louis, finding that his enemies gathered courage behind their inundations, and that no farther success... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 234 pages
...When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him, whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined!...one certain means," replied the prince, " by which I cau be sure never to see my country's ruin : I will die in the last ditch." The people in Holland had... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1863 - 564 pages
...the people were again united in defence of their independence. " There is one certain means," said the prince, " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin— I will die in thc last ditch." In the following campaign a coalition between the empire, Spain, and Holland, forced... | |
 | David Hume - 1864 - 652 pages
...When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him, whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined...the prince, by which I can be sure never to see my country s ruin ; I will die in the last ditch. The people in Holland had been much incited to espouse... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - 636 pages
...the people were again united in defence of their independence. " There is one certain means," said the prince, " by which I can be sure never to see...my country's ruin— I will die in the last ditch." In the following campaign a coalition between the empire, Spain, and Holland, forced Louis to act on... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - United States - 1864 - 446 pages
..."There is one certain means," said the prince, answering the remark that the Commonwealth was ruined, " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin ; I will die in the last ditch.'' Hume's Hist, of England, vol. iv., page 261. J. w. BELFAST, MAIKE. A BIBLIOGEAPHICAL ANECDOTE. —... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined,...country's ruin — I will die in the last ditch." HOME. Historg of England. 1672. " No one is a hero to his valet." This phrase is commonly attributed... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him whether he did not see that the Commonwealth was ruined,...which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, — / will die in the last ditch." Hume, History of England. 1672. A Rowland for an Oliver. These were... | |
 | Philip Smith - Great Britain - 1868 - 394 pages
...the people were again united in defense of their independence. " There is one certain means," said the prince, " by which I can be sure never to see...country's ruin — I will die in the last ditch." In the following campaign a coalition between the empire, Spain, and Holland, forced Louis to act on... | |
 | David Hume - 1869 - 822 pages
...When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined,...my country's ruin —I will die in the last ditch." Louis, finding that his enemies gathered courage behind their inundations, and that no farther success... | |
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When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined, " There is one certain means," replied the prince, " by which I can be sure never to see my country's... 
