It had often been said, in times of civil war, that whoever was master of the Tower and of Tilbury Fort was master of London.

The fastnesses by means of which Montague proposed to keep the capital obedient in times of peace and of constitutional government were of a different kind.

The Bank was one of his fortresses; and he trusted that a new India House would be the other.
The task which he had undertaken was not an easy one.

For, while his opponents were united, his adherents were divided.

Most of those who were for a New Company thought that the New Company ought, like the Old Company, to trade on a joint stock.