 ... cannot be resisted on the coast of England without a fleet to impeach it ; no, nor on the coast of France, or any other country, except every creek, port, or sandy bay had a powerful army in each of them to make opposition.  Military Expeditions Beyond the Seas - Page 342by George Armand Furse - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Guiana - 1820 - 618 pages
...enemy's country, and the place left to the choice of the invader. Hereunto I say, that such an army cannot be resisted on the coast of England without...powerful army in each of them to make opposition. For, let his whole supposition be granted, that Kent is able to furnish twelve thousand foot ; and... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1829 - 556 pages
...enemy's country, and the place left to the choice of the invader. Hereunto I say, that such an army cannot be resisted on the coast of England without...a powerful army in each of them to make opposition : for let his whole supposition be granted ; that Kent is able to furnish twelve thousand foot; and... | |
 | Parliamentary and political miscellany - 1851 - 714 pages
...strengthened with many fortified places, and this of ours, where our ramparts are but the bodies of men. But I say that an army to be transported over sea,...powerful army in each of them, to make opposition. For let the supposition be granted, that Kent is able to furnish twelve thousand foot, and that those... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 348 pages
...strengthened with many fortified places ; and this of ours, where our ramparts are but the bodies of men. But I say that an army to be transported over sea,...powerful army, in each of them, to make opposition. For * " Historie of the World," pp. 799—801. let the supposition be granted, that Kent is able to... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Battles - 1851 - 400 pages
...to be lauded again in an enemy's country, and the place left to the choice of the invader, can not be resisted on the coast of England without a fleet...powerful army in each of them to make opposition. For let the supposition be granted that Kent is able to furnish twelve thousand foot, and that those... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Battles - 1851 - 376 pages
...be landed again in an enemy's country, and the place left to the choice of the invader, can not he resisted on the coast of England without a fleet to...powerful army in each of them to make opposition. For let the supposition be granted that Kent is able to furnish twelve thousand foot, and that those... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 346 pages
...enemy's country, and the place left to the choice of the invader. Hereunto I say that such an army cannot be resisted on the coast of England without...or any other country — except every creek, port, and sandy bay had a powerful army in each of them to make opposition ; for let his whole supposition... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1859 - 740 pages
...resisted1 oil ™e coast of England without a ' ' '' ' ' , Weet'to irtipe'aeih |i, ipj'no'f on 'ifte 'coast of France or any other country, except every...port, or sandy bay had a powerful army in each of thi'iil to make opposition. Fo"r there'is no man ignorant' that ships, without patting^'themselves... | |
 | Bartle Teeling - 1881 - 456 pages
...strengthened with many fortified places, and this of ours, where our ramparts are but the bodies of men. But I say that an army to be transported over sea,...powerful army in each of them to make opposition. — Sir Walter Raleigh. -June 12 Whenever it falls to the lot ot an individual to be entrusted •with... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1885 - 248 pages
...strengthened with many fortified places ; and this of ours, where our ramparts are. but the bodies of men. But I say that an army to be transported over sea,...powerful army, in each of them, to make opposition. For let the supposition be granted that Kent is able to furnish twelve thousand foot, and that those... | |
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