 | 1844 - 616 Seiten
...received by the House with roars of laughter. He had sense enough to be conscious of his unfitness for the high situation which he held, and exclaimed,...Grenville came to the rescue, and spoke strongly on his favorite theme, the profusion with which the late war had been carried on. That profusion, he said,... | |
 | 1844 - 638 Seiten
...received by the House with roars of laughter. He had sense enough to be conscious of his unfitness for the high situation which he held, and exclaimed, in a comical fit of despair, f What shall I do? The boys will point at me in the street, and ' cry, " There goes the worst chancellor... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1845 - 488 Seiten
...esteemed a plain country gentleman of good sense, said himself afterwards, " People will point at me, and cry, there goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever appeared /" His famous measure was the tax on cider; and whoever would know more of his ability in... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 614 Seiten
...Hist. vol. xv. p. 1305. " I do ? " he exclaimed to some friends. " People CHAP, VT T " will point at me and cry : ' There goes the . ~* . " ' worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever 1763. " 'lived!'"* The matter of the new Budget pleased as little as its oratory. Sir Francis proposed,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 416 Seiten
...seldom — of his failure. " What shall I do ?" he exclaimed to some friends. "People will point at me and cry: 'There goes the worst " ' Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever lived ! ' " f The matter of the new Budget pleased as little as its oratory. Sir Francis proposed,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 414 Seiten
...seldom — of his failure. " What shall I do ? " he exclaimed to some friends. " People will point at me and cry : ' There " ' goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever "'lived!'":): The matter of the new Budget pleased as little as its oratory. Sir Francis proposed,... | |
 | William Massey - 1855 - 604 Seiten
...perceive, and the good humour to acknowledge, his own incapacity. ' People will point at me,' said he, ' and cry, — ' There goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever lived!" — WALPOLE'S History of George the Third, vol ip 250. (B. p. 276.) ' The fall of the ministers... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 Seiten
...received by the House with roars of laughter. He had sense enough to bo conscious of his unfitness for the high situation which he held, and exclaimed...strongly on his favourite theme, the profusion with \vhich the late war had been carried on. That profusion, he said, had made taxes necessary. He called... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 Seiten
...Dashwood, who was so conscious of his unfitness for his office, that he exclaimed, in a fit of comical despair, "What shall I do?. The boys will point at...worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever was-.' " INFLUENCE OB PITT'» NAME; "His dismissal from the- Ministry," thus wrote an accomplished Frenchman,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 468 Seiten
...to be eonseious of his unfitness for the high situation whieh he held, and exelaimed, in a eomieal fit of despair, "What shall I do? The boys will point at me in the street, and ery, ' There goes the worst ehaneellor of the exehequer that ever was ' " George Grenville eame to... | |
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Dashwood's financial statement had been confused and absurd beyond belief, and had been received by the House with roars of laughter. He had sense enough to be conscious of his unfitness for the high situation which he held, and exclaimed in a comical... 
