Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second volume 3
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second volume 3
Walpole Horace
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KIXG GEOEGE II. 173 feared heartily ; and the heavy debt of the nation, which was above fonrscore millions, served as an excuse to those Avho understood nothing but little temporary expedients to preach up our impossibility of making an effectual stand. They were willing to trust that France would be so good as to ruin us by inches. Pitt had roused us from this ignoble lethargy : he had asserted that our resources were still prodi- gious — he found them so in the intrepidity of our troops and n...avies — but he went farther, and perhaps too far. He staked our revenues Avitli as little management as he played with the lives of the subjects; and as if we could never have another war to wage, or as if he meant, which was imprac- ticable, that his Administration should decide which alone should exist as a nation, Britain or France, he lavished the last treasures of this country with a prodigality beyond example and beyond excuse; yet even that profusion was not so blameable as his negligence.
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