The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    land-forces with thofe of many other crowned heads. In numbers, they all far exceed us, and in the gpodnefs and fplendor of their troops, many scions, particularly the Germans and French, and perhaps the Dutch, cafe us at a dis¬ tance 3 for however we may flatter our- felves with the Edwards and Henrys of former ages, the change of the whole art of war llnce thofe days, by which the advantage of perfonal ftrength is, in a manner, entirely loft, hath produ¬ ced a change in military affairs to the advantage ol our enemies. As for our O' fucceffes in later days, if they were not entirely owing to the fuperior ge¬ nius of our general, they were not a little due to the fuperior force of his money. Indeed, if we fhould arraign marflhal Saxe of oftentation, when he flbewed his army, drawn up, to our captive general, the dry after the battle of La Val, we cannot fay that the often- tation was entirely vain ; fince he cer¬ tainly fhewed him an army, which had not been often equalled, either in the