When Wellington once, as a victor, went over the field of battle, he burst out with the cry, "There is nothing so disastrous as a victory, except a defeat."
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That is 12,000,000,000; sufficient to furnish the annual pension of a minister of State, 2,000 kroner, for EVERY man and woman, old man and suckling in the whole of Norway. – Ed. of Danish edition.
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Five times as many able-bodied men as there are men, women, old men and children in the whole of Norway. – Do.
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The word "guaranteed" was inserted in the motion contrary to the opinion of the committee