 | 1839 - 898 trang
...unfavourable for a day or two, so that we have been inactive. I am so far recovered as to do business ; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation...service to the state ; or without any prospect of it. I have the honour to be, with great respect, my lord, your lordship's most obedient and most humble... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 552 trang
...unfavourable for a day or two, so that we have been inactive. I am so far recovered as to do business; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation...service to the state ; or without any prospect of it. I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 540 trang
...unfavourable for a day or two, so that we have been inactive. I am so far recovered as to do business; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation...service to the state ; or without any prospect of it. I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 350 trang
...patron—were penned only four days before his glorious death: " I am so far recovered as to do business; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation...service to the state; or without any prospect, of it." The King of Prussia's opinion of Mr. Pitt is given in some very remarkable expressions, in an extract... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 546 trang
...unfavourable for a day or two, so that we have been inactive. I am so far recovered as to do business; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation...service to the state, or without any prospect of it" VValpole, however, in his animated description of the capture of Quebec, in his Memoires, docs ample... | |
 | 1850 - 600 trang
...deep despondency and his ruling passion. ' I am so far recovered,' he says, ' as to do business ; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation...service to the state, or without any prospect of it.' Dr. Robinson, afterward an eminent professor in the University of Edinburgh, also mentions a touching... | |
 | George Warburton - 1850 - 376 trang
...points: it concludes in the following desponding words : " I am so far recovered as to do business, but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation...service to the state, or without any prospect of it." But while he wrote almost in despair, he acted as if he had never doubted of success. On the llth of... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1850 - 624 trang
...deep despondency and his ruling passion. ' I am so far recovered,' he says, ' as to do business; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation...service to the state, or without any prospect of it.' Dr. Robinson, afterward an eminent professor in the University of Edinburgh, also mentions a touching... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 520 trang
...concluding words: — "I am so far " recovered as to do business, but my constitution is en" tirely ruined, without the consolation of having done " any...service to the state, or without any " prospect of it." — Let him who reads these words, and their event, learn from them never to lose hope of success in... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 428 trang
...concluding words : — "I am so far " recovered as to do business, but my constitution is en" tirely ruined, without the consolation of having done " any...service to the state, or without any " prospect of it." — Let him who reads these words, and their event, learn from them never to lose hope of success in... | |
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My constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation of having done any considerable service to the state, or without any prospect of it. 
