. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ritorial acquisitions. But they are com-pensated when a nation is awakened by war out of a degraded condition ;when the principle of an exalted patriotism and a generous loyalty takes theplace of a venal self-seeking and a miserable abnegation of public was in this apathetic state when Pitt took the direction of her affairsWhen he Consolting Englands happiness at home,Secured it by an unforgiving frownIf any wrongd her. t Walpole— George III., vol. i. p.
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ritorial acquisitions. But they are com-pensated when a nation is awakened by war out of a degraded condition ;when the principle of an exalted patriotism and a generous loyalty takes theplace of a venal self-seeking and a miserable abnegation of public was in this apathetic state when Pitt took the direction of her affairsWhen he Consolting Englands happiness at home,Secured it by an unforgiving frownIf any wrongd her. t Walpole— George III., vol. i. p. 229. t Cowpcr—Task, b. 2. 258 THE COST OF THE WAR; AND ITS USES. [176b. He raised the people to a just appreciation of tlie spirit ia which he hadlaboured for the elevation of his country. That some of that spirit has beentransmitted to us during the lapse of a century may be, even now, a compen-sation for the two shillings a head that every one of the twenty-five millionsof the existing population has annually to pay towards the perpetual burdenof taxation created by the war that was terminated by the peace of •v»\../-,.. Qarden Front of Old Kcw TjltsB. From a Priut by WooHett.
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