But the occasion is lost; the time is gone, perhaps forever.
As to the third requisite, _alliance_, there too the author is silent.
What strength of that kind did they acquire?
They got no one new ally; they stript the enemy of not a single old one.

They disgusted (how justly, or unjustly, matters not) every ally we had; and from that time to this we stand friendless in Europe.

But of this naked condition of their country I know some people are not ashamed.

They have their system of politics; our ancestors grew great by another.

In this manner these virtuous men concluded the peace; and their practice is only consonant to their theory.
Many things more might be observed on this curious head of our author's speculations.