 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1899 - 470 페이지
...its vortex, which extended to every continent and reached every sea. In Macaulay's sweeping phrase, " Black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." It was the first and only European war that began on this side of the Ocean. Its close saw France discomfited... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1900 - 438 페이지
...an oft-quoted, sentence, sums up the consequences of the invasion of Silesia by Frederick the Great: "In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." But that epigram needs to be inverted to become accurate. Great battles were fought on the Rhine and... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1901 - 226 페이지
...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...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." Disregarding the justice or injustice of the thought, note the singular force and beauty of this passage,... | |
 | 1901 - 548 페이지
...in 1756 because Frederick said nasty things about the Pompadour and Elizabeth of Russia, and that " black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America, in order," as Macaulay says, "that Frederick might roba neighbour whom he had promised to defend,"... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1901 - 562 페이지
...politics ; " when, in a quarrel purely European in its origin, " black men," to use Macaulay's words, " fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America." All, without exception, were actors in the prolonged conflict that began in 1739 concerning the right... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1901 - 600 페이지
...Frederick, " that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coasts of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America." Precisely as the colonies grew, any power hostile to Great Britain was incited to attack them. At some... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 페이지
...resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall. ibid, In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had...scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. On Frederic the, Great. 1842. We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 522 페이지
...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...men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.1 Silesia bad been occupied without a battle ; but the Austrian troops were advancing to the... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 544 페이지
...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...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America. — Edinburgh Review, April, 1842. BERTRAND BARERE. We have read M. Hippolyte Carnot's Mtmoires de... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1903 - 708 페이지
...conflagration which Frederick's act had kindled : " In order that he might rob a neighbor," he says, " whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on...scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America." The war went on until 1748, when it was closed by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. Carlyle's summing-up... | |
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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 Great Lakes of North America... 
