Correspondence of William Pitt, Volume 1John Murray, 1838 |
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Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Volume 1 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) Volledige weergave - 1840 |
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acquaint admiralty affairs affectionate afterwards appointed April army assure believe brother chancellor commands court DEAR NEPHEW DEAR PITT DEAR SIR desire died disposition Duke of Bedford Duke of Devonshire Duke of Newcastle endeavours England esteem exchequer favour France French friendship George Grenville Gibraltar give Grace Hanover happy HARDWICKE hear HENRY BILSON LEGGE HENRY FOX HOLLES NEWCASTLE honour hope Horace Horace Walpole House of Commons humble servant Ireland King of Prussia King's Lady Hester Legge letter Lord Bute Lord Waldegrave Lordship Majesty Majesty's manner matter minister Minorca obedient obliged opinion parliament Pelham PITT TO THOMAS Pitt's pleasure Potter present Prince proper received resigned respect Royal secretary sent sincere Sir George Lyttelton Spain thing THOMAS ORBY HUNTER THOMAS PITT thought Townshend treasury treaty troops uncle Walpole Walpole's wish write
Populaire passages
Pagina 63 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Pagina 100 - Undoubtedly Mr. Grenville was a first-rate figure in this country. With a masculine understanding, and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a ' duty he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy...
Pagina 424 - I am so far recovered as to do business ; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation of having done any considerable service to the state, or without any prospect of it.
Pagina 219 - I have the honour to be with the greatest Respect. Sir, Your most obedient and most humble servant, JAM.
Pagina 61 - At leisure hours, an abridgment of the History of England to be run through, in order to settle in the mind a general chronological order and series of principal events, and succession of kings : proper books of English history, on the true principles of our happy constitution, shall be pointed out afterwards. Burnet's History of the Reformation, abridged by himself, to be read with great care.
Pagina 424 - I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble servant, JAM. WOLFE.
Pagina 83 - ... ni posees ante diem librum cum lumine, si non intendes animum studiis et rebus honestis, invidia vel amore vigil torquebere.
Pagina 60 - If you do not rise early, you never can make any progress worth mentioning ; if you do not set apart your hours of reading — if you suffer yourself or any one else to break in upon them — your days will slip through your hands unprofitably and frivolously, unpraised by all you wish to please, and really unenjoyed by yourself.
Pagina 245 - Cumberland. execution of the plan now opened, that the day is come when the very inadequate benefits of the treaty of Utrecht, the indelible reproach of the last generation, are become the necessary, but almost unattainable wish of the present, when'the empire is no more, the ports of the Netherlands betrayed, the Dutch Barrier treaty an empty sound, Minorca, and with it, the Mediterranean lost, and America itself precarious.
Pagina 69 - The first is the perfection and glory of the human nature; the two last, the deprivation and disgrace of it Remember the essence of religion is, a heart void of offence towards God and man; not subtle speculative opinions, but an active vital principle of faith.