 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1879 - 562 páginas
...also the apartment in which his father died. Besides William, Lord and Lady Chatham had two vOL. I. B sons and two daughters. John, the eldest son, was...King on this occasion bestowed on him a pension of 3,OOOi. a year for three lives, and raised Lady Hester to the peerage in her own right as Baroness... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - 364 páginas
...Asia under Pitt. " Who that died three years ago and could revive," he inquires, " would believe it? One is forced to ask every morning what victory there is for fear of missing one ! " The position now occupied by Pitt is the most brilliant that the annals of English political biography... | |
 | 1881 - 572 páginas
...the peerage the year after the accession of George III., at the time when, as Walpole said, ' We are forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.' Or, as Green more truly says, ' England had never played so great a part in the history of mankind.'... | |
 | Louise Creighton - 1881 - 408 páginas
...victories in Europe, both on land and sea. A writer at the time English Empire in India. 329 said, " We are forced to ask every morning what victory there is for fear of missing one." England had never been so great and important before. Men felt that this was Pitt's doing, and he became... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 páginas
...fortresses taken, provinces added to the empire.'* ' Indeed,' writes Horace Walpole, in November 1799, 'one is forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.' To resolve on superseding such a rule, argued no common degree of boldness and self-confidence in the... | |
 | Alfred Rimmer - 1882 - 378 páginas
...the peerage the year after the accession of George III., at the time when, as Walpole said, " We are forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one." Or, as Green more truly says, " England had never played so great a part in the history of mankind."... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 páginas
...mighty in Europe, Asia, and America. " Who that died three years ago and could revive would believe it ? One is forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one ! " The position now occupied by Pitt is the most brilliant that the annals of political biography... | |
 | Oscar Browning - 1884 - 180 páginas
...Pitt's government to the highest level of popularity. ' One is forced,' said the witty Horace Walpole, ' to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.' Goree was subdued at the beginning of the year, then Guadaloupe, then Ticonderoga, then Niagara. The... | |
 | Mandell Creighton - 1886 - 744 páginas
...coasts of Portugal and France mighty deeds of war were done by the English. A writer then living said, ' One is forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.' 5. (i.) In Germany the campaign began with a defeat. The French having seized the free town of Frankfort,... | |
 | James Rowley - 1887 - 128 páginas
...coasts of Portugal and France mighty deeds of war were done by the English. A writer then living said, ' One is forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.' 5. (l.) In Germany the campaign began with a defeat. The French having seized the free town of Frankfort,... | |
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Indeed," says Horace Walpole, in his lively style, " one is forced to ask every " morning what victory there is, for fear of missing " one ! 
