 | Sir Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1829 - 556 pages
...enemy from landing ; I hold that it is unable so to do ; and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure : for the encouragement of a first...they of the protestant religion, after the battle of Moncounter, entered that country, and gathered great strength and relief thence ; for if the king,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1829 - 562 pages
...enemy from landing ; I hold that it is unable so to do ; and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure : for the encouragement of a first...invaded, may draw after it a most perilous consequence. ft is true, that the marshal Monluc, in his Commentaries, doth greatly complain, that by his wanting... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...enemy from landing, I hoíd that it is unable so to do ; and, therefore, I think it most dangerous to make the adventure ; for the encouragement of a first victory to an enemy, and the discouragement of a being beaten to the invaded, may draw after it a most perilous consequence." He proceeds to demonstrate... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Biography & Autobiography - 1844 - 430 pages
...enemy from landing, I hold that it is unable so to do ; and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure : for the encouragement of a first...invaded, may draw after it a most perilous consequence." J He proceeds to demonstrate the weakness of any argument drawn from Prance, or any other European... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 pages
...enemy from landing, I hold that it is unable so to do ; and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure : for the encouragement of a first...to the invaded, may draw after it a most perilous consequence."J He proceeds to demonstrate the weakness of any argument drawn from France, or any other... | |
 | John Barrow - Great Britain - 1845 - 540 pages
...enemy from landing, I hold that it is unable to do so ; and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure ; for the encouragement of a first...draw after it a most perilous consequence." * It is said that the Armada, having passed Plymouth, Raleigh, afraid that the principal fight might take place... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Battles - 1851 - 400 pages
...an enemy from landing, I hold that it is unable so to do, and therefore I thiuk it most dangerous to make the adventure ; for the encouragement of a first...invaded, may draw after it a most perilous consequence. " Great difference I know there is, and a diverse consideration to be had, between such a country as... | |
 | Parliamentary and political miscellany - 1851 - 714 pages
...an enemy from landing? I hold that it is unable so to do, and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure ; for the encouragement of a first...invaded, may draw after it a most perilous consequence. Great difference I know there is, and a diverse consideration to be had, between such a country as... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Explorers - 1853 - 454 pages
...enemy from landing, I hold that it is unable so to do ; and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure : for the encouragement of a first...invaded, may draw after it a most perilous consequence." J He proceeds to demonstrate the weakness of any argument drawn from France, or any other European... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 344 pages
...enemy from landing, I hold that it is unable so to do ; and, therefore, I think it most dangerous to make the adventure ; for the encouragement of a first...wanting forces wherewith to have kept the frontier of Guyenne, they of the Protestant religion, after the battle of Moncontour, entered that country and... | |
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England, -without the help of her fleet, be able to debar an enemy from landing, I hold that it is unable so to do, and therefore I think it most dangerous to make the adventure; for the encouragement of a first victory to an enemy, and the discouragement... 
