Representative Statesmen: Political Studies, Հատոր 1Chapman and Hall, 1879 |
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... ( 1676— MARCH 18 , 1745 ) . 121 CHATHAM , THE MINISTER OF War ( 1708 - May 11 , 1778 ) . 187 WILLIAM PITT , THE DISINTERESTED MINISTER ( 1759— JANUARY 23 , 1806 ) 279 REPRESENTATIVE STATESMEN . STRAFFORD , THE DESPOTIC MINISTER . .
... ( 1676— MARCH 18 , 1745 ) . 121 CHATHAM , THE MINISTER OF War ( 1708 - May 11 , 1778 ) . 187 WILLIAM PITT , THE DISINTERESTED MINISTER ( 1759— JANUARY 23 , 1806 ) 279 REPRESENTATIVE STATESMEN . STRAFFORD , THE DESPOTIC MINISTER . .
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... spot where his remains have been interred . " So peaceful rest , without a stone , a name Which once had ' honours , titles , wealth , and fame . ' " CHATHAM , THE MINISTER OF WAR . 1708 MAY 11 186 REPRESENTATIVE STATESMEN .
... spot where his remains have been interred . " So peaceful rest , without a stone , a name Which once had ' honours , titles , wealth , and fame . ' " CHATHAM , THE MINISTER OF WAR . 1708 MAY 11 186 REPRESENTATIVE STATESMEN .
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Political Studies Alexander Charles Ewald. CHATHAM , THE MINISTER OF WAR . 1708 MAY 11 , 1778 . As Walpole was essentially the Minister of Peace , so the haughty Chatham was essentially the Minister of War . To the proud , imperious ...
Political Studies Alexander Charles Ewald. CHATHAM , THE MINISTER OF WAR . 1708 MAY 11 , 1778 . As Walpole was essentially the Minister of Peace , so the haughty Chatham was essentially the Minister of War . To the proud , imperious ...
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... Chatham desired England to assume , and such was the position to which , after years of commercial prosperity , bought at the expense of national pres- tige , he compelled her to attain . The man was fitted to the task . Nature had cast ...
... Chatham desired England to assume , and such was the position to which , after years of commercial prosperity , bought at the expense of national pres- tige , he compelled her to attain . The man was fitted to the task . Nature had cast ...
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... Chatham ; he was always sublime . He knew the danger to dignity which the great man incurs by lowering himself in his tastes , his plea- sures , his social converse , to the level of those around him . Chatham never unbent ; he was ...
... Chatham ; he was always sublime . He knew the danger to dignity which the great man incurs by lowering himself in his tastes , his plea- sures , his social converse , to the level of those around him . Chatham never unbent ; he was ...
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Էջ 255 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Էջ 236 - 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.
Էջ 258 - ... man, woman, and child ! to send forth the infidel savage — 'against whom ? against your Protestant brethren ; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war ! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war...
Էջ 254 - You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince, that sells his subjects to the shambles...
Էջ 256 - it was perfectly justifiable to use all the means that God and nature put into our hands!" I AM ASTONISHED ! — shocked ! to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country ; principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and unchristian ! My lords, I did not intend to have encroached again upon your attention; but I cannot repress my indignation.
Էջ 265 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me ; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy.
Էջ 254 - I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Էջ 242 - ... stone and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was, indeed, a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, — " Sir, your name?" — " Sir, you have the advantage of me." — " Mr. Such-a-one.
Էջ 70 - This innocent word Trimmer signifieth no more than this, That if Men are together in a Boat, and one part of the Company would weigh it down on one side, another would make it lean as much to the contrary ; it happeneth there is a third Opinion of those, who conceive it would do as well, if the Boat went even, without endangering the Passengers...
Էջ 265 - Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions ? Shall this great kingdom, that has survived whole and entire the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest ; that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon...