The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1913 |
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Admiralty affairs alliance allies America Anson April army attack Bedford Boscawen brother Byng Cabinet called campaign capture Carteret Chatham MSS Chesterfield Choiseul Cobham command Company Corr Court Cumberland danger debate December declared defence Dodington Duke of Cumberland Duke of Newcastle Egmont election electorate enemy England English expedition favour February fight fleet foreign France Frederic Frederic's French friends George George Grenville Government Governor Grenville Hanover Hanoverians Hardwicke honour hope Horace Walpole House of Commons India January King King's Lady Hester letter Lord Loudoun Louisburg Lyttelton March military militia minister Ministry Minorca nation never Newcastle's November Old Sarum Opposition orders Parliament peace Pelham Pitt Pitt's plans political Prince of Wales Prussia Record Office regiments Sanderson Miller Secretary sent session ships Spain speech spirit squadron subsidy Temple thought told took trade treaty troops victory Walpole's William wrote
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Página 85 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Página 85 - If any man shall, by charging me with theatrical behaviour, imply that I utter any sentiments but my own, I shall treat him as a calumniator and a villain ; nor shall any protection shelter him from the treatment he deserves. I shall, on such an occasion, without scruple, trample...
Página 21 - Asleep and naked as an Indian lay, An honest factor stole a gem away : He pledged it to the knight, the knight had wit, So kept the diamond, and the rogue was bit.
Página 85 - Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and become more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Página 112 - Mr. Pitt incessantly carried on the attack upon Carteret, who, strong in the King's favor, was acting against the wishes of his associates in office. He exclaimed against him as " a sole minister, who had renounced the British nation, and seemed to have drunk of that potion described in poetic fictions, which made men forget their country.
Página 85 - I am at liberty, like every other man, to use my own language; and though I may perhaps have some ambition to please this gentleman I shall not lay myself under any restraint, nor very solicitously copy his diction, or his mien, however matured by age or modelled by experience.
Página 77 - This Convention, Sir, I think from my soul is nothing but a stipulation for national ignominy; an illusory expedient to baffle the resentment of the nation; a truce without a suspension of hostilities on the part of Spain; on the part of England a suspension, as to Georgia, of the first law of nature, self-preservation and self-defence...
Página 190 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen; to leave...
Página 85 - I will not sit unconcerned while my liberty is invaded, nor look in silence upon public robbery.