William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the Growth and Division of the British Empire, 1708-1778G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901 - 391 páginas "William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (15 November 1708? 11 May 1778), called William Pitt the Elder by historians, was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in the United States). He again led the country (holding the official title of Lord Privy Seal) between 1766 and 1768. Much of his power came from his brilliant oratory. He was out of power for most of his career, and became famous for his attacks on the government, such as Walpole's corruption in the 1730s, Hanoverian subsidies in the 1740s, peace with France in the 1760s, and the uncompromising policy toward the American colonies in the 1770s."--Wikipedia. |
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... negotiations which led to Carteret's becoming Secretary of State . X In connection with these negotiations , there is a story which , if true , is very little to the credit of the small party of Pitt , Lyttleton , and the Grenvilles ...
... negotiations which led to Carteret's becoming Secretary of State . X In connection with these negotiations , there is a story which , if true , is very little to the credit of the small party of Pitt , Lyttleton , and the Grenvilles ...
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... negotiation , flexible in conviction , con- stantly embarrassed by a superfluity of irrelevant considerations and alarmed by the known and un- known dangers of life , he was a man of tireless in- dustry who learned nothing and achieved ...
... negotiation , flexible in conviction , con- stantly embarrassed by a superfluity of irrelevant considerations and alarmed by the known and un- known dangers of life , he was a man of tireless in- dustry who learned nothing and achieved ...
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... negotiated Utrecht , conspired with Atterbury , and instilled the philosophy of na- ture into Pope . " Mr. Pitt , " was the verdict of the veteran diplomatist and dilettante , " is a young man of fine parts , but he is narrow , does not ...
... negotiated Utrecht , conspired with Atterbury , and instilled the philosophy of na- ture into Pope . " Mr. Pitt , " was the verdict of the veteran diplomatist and dilettante , " is a young man of fine parts , but he is narrow , does not ...
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... negotiation in set form with Fox , who was offered . and accepted the seals of Secretary of State . Fox accepted this proposal under the impression that he was to lead and manage the House of Commons , but he speedily discovered that ...
... negotiation in set form with Fox , who was offered . and accepted the seals of Secretary of State . Fox accepted this proposal under the impression that he was to lead and manage the House of Commons , but he speedily discovered that ...
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... negotiations Pitt had been an exile at Bath , the victim of a severe attack of gout . On the day following Pelham's death , he sent " to Lyttleton and the Brotherhood " a letter of instructions for the party , from which it is clear ...
... negotiations Pitt had been an exile at Bath , the victim of a severe attack of gout . On the day following Pelham's death , he sent " to Lyttleton and the Brotherhood " a letter of instructions for the party , from which it is clear ...
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Página 33 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Página 326 - The dissenting ministers are represented as men of close ambition, they are so, my lords ; and their ambition is to keep close to the college of fishermen, not of cardinals ; and to the doctrine of inspired apostles, not to the decrees of interested and aspiring bishops. They contend for a spiritual creed and spiritual worship; we have a calvinistic creed, a popish liturgy, and an arminian clergy.
Página 365 - My Lords, his Majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions...
Página 349 - Such, then, being your precarious situations, who should wonder that you can put a negative on any measure which must annihilate your power, deprive you of your emoluments, and at once reduce you to that state of insignificance, for which God and nature designed you ? " The bill was rejected by sixty-one against thirty-two.
Página 253 - It is a long time, Mr. Speaker, since I have attended in parliament. When the resolution was taken in the house to tax America, I was ill in bed.
Página 257 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 365 - Norman conquest; that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon ? Surely, my Lords, this nation is no longer what it was ! Shall a people, that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, take all we have, only give us peace ? It is impossible ! ' I wage war with no man, or set of men.
Página 252 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.