William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the Growth and Division of the British Empire, 1708-1778G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901 - 391 páginas |
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... opinion gives us a sufficient idea of the position held by Pitt when , having won fame by his criticism of Walpole , he increased that fame by his criticism of Walpole's former rival and present successor . The fall of Walpole marked ...
... opinion gives us a sufficient idea of the position held by Pitt when , having won fame by his criticism of Walpole , he increased that fame by his criticism of Walpole's former rival and present successor . The fall of Walpole marked ...
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... opinion of the Ministers he now proposed to join : in an inter- view with Bolingbroke he described them as weak men , incapable of concert , and in all their steps inse- cure ; he thought any union with them quite impos- sible ; they ...
... opinion of the Ministers he now proposed to join : in an inter- view with Bolingbroke he described them as weak men , incapable of concert , and in all their steps inse- cure ; he thought any union with them quite impos- sible ; they ...
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... opinion had been educated by a few men of loftier mind . Among politicians , the two Pitts exercised the widest and purest influence in this matter . The refusal of illicit gain was no doubt ostentatious , but the man who first ...
... opinion had been educated by a few men of loftier mind . Among politicians , the two Pitts exercised the widest and purest influence in this matter . The refusal of illicit gain was no doubt ostentatious , but the man who first ...
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... opinion that business cannot go on as things now are , and that offers will be made to Pitt or me . On this subject , Pitt was with me two hours yesterday morning . A difficult conversation : I managed it , as I think , as well as such ...
... opinion that business cannot go on as things now are , and that offers will be made to Pitt or me . On this subject , Pitt was with me two hours yesterday morning . A difficult conversation : I managed it , as I think , as well as such ...
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... payment to the Pel- hams ; the promise which both the brothers had given that they would plead ' for Pitt with the King , * Phillimore's Lyttleton , i . , 478 . had , in the opinion of a shrewd and well 62 [ 1754- William Pitt .
... payment to the Pel- hams ; the promise which both the brothers had given that they would plead ' for Pitt with the King , * Phillimore's Lyttleton , i . , 478 . had , in the opinion of a shrewd and well 62 [ 1754- William Pitt .
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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.