 | Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst - 1902 - 176 pages
...those willing to burden the country with debt for an apparently immaterial cause. Swift wrote that "it will no doubt be a mighty comfort to our grandchildren, when they see a few rags hung up in Westminster Hall, which cost a hundred millions, whereof they are paying... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...them with a vengeance very soon.' Works, ii. 387. 3 This quotation is not from Swift's pamphlet. 4 'It will no doubt be a mighty comfort to our grandchildren when they see a few rags hung up in Westminster Hall, which cost a hundred millions, whereof they are paying... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1916 - 208 pages
...etis.j, 7. ment, the Corruption of our Manners, and the Opposition of Factions, we shall be more slow in recovering. It will, no doubt, be a mighty Comfort to our Grandchildren, when they see a few Rags hang up in Westminster-Hall, which cost an hundred Millions, whereof they are paying... | |
 | 1921 - 596 pages
...left an aftermath of social strife. Swift in his Conduct of the Allies (1712) wrote sarcastically that 'it will no doubt be a mighty comfort to our grandchildren, when they see a few rags hung up in Westminster Hall, which cost a hundred millions, whereof they are paying... | |
 | J. S. Bromley - 1970 - 992 pages
...bound to lead to bankruptcy. As Swift wrote bitterly, after nine years of the Spanish Succession War, It will, no doubt, be a mighty Comfort to our Grandchildren, when they see a few Rags hung up in Westminster-Hall, which cost an hundred Millions, whereof they are paying... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 326 pages
...the enemy ; and by the nature of our government, the corruption of our manners, and the oppofition of factions, we fhall be more flow in recovering. It will, no doubt, be a mighty comfort to out grandehildren, when they fee a few rags hung up in Weflminfterhall, which coft an hundred millions,... | |
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It will no doubt be a mighty comfort to our grand-children, when they see a few rags hung up in Westminster Hall which cost a hundred millions, whereof they are paying the arrears, to boast as beggars do that their grandfathers were rich and great. 
