Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, 第 4 巻J. Murray, 1862 |
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398 ページ - alitur et motibus excitatur et urendo clarescit." Another of the party observed that it was untranslatable ; upon which Mr. Pitt immediately replied, " No ; I should translate it thus:— " It is with eloquence as with a flame. It requires fuel to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns.
363 ページ - had seen me he had been happy to become acquainted with my brother Arthur, of whom he spoke in the warmest terms of commendation. He said, ' I never met any military officer with whom it was so satisfactory to converse. He states every difficulty before he undertakes any service, but none after he has undertaken it.'
394 ページ - I have already cited the solemn testimony showing that Mr. Pitt in his dying hours derived consolation from remembering the innocency of his life. It is observed by Lord Macaulay, as tending to explain the abstinence of Mr. Pitt from loose amours, that " his constitution was feeble; he was very shy, and he was very busy.
237 ページ - Majesty felt free to exclaim, "Then he has not left a > greater knave behind him in my dominions!" /?" Lord Campbell observes, and I concur with him, that this story seems to rest on undoubted authority.
285 ページ - of his predecessor Flood had been a complete failure under nearly similar circumstances. But when the Ministerial part of our Senators had watched Pitt, their thermometer, for their cue, and saw him nod repeatedly his stately nod of approbation, they took the hint from their huntsman, and broke out into the most rapturous cheers.
370 ページ - about half-past two Mr. Pitt ceased moaning, and did( not speak or make the slightest sound for some time, as his extremities were then growing chilly. I feared he was dying; but shortly afterwards, with a much clearer voice than he spoke in before, and in a tone I never
408 ページ - Walpole, have worn in the House of Commons—he maintained throughout the rare combination of a most slender patrimony with eminent disinterestedness. " Dispensing for near twenty years the favours of the Crown, he lived without ostentation and he died poor: " such is part of the inscription which the most eloquent and gifted of his pupils inscribed
160 ページ - recollect Mr. Pitt saying with some indignation, he would teach that proud man that, in the service and with the confidence of the King, he could do without him, though he thought his health such that it might cost him his life.
198 ページ - equal the ridicule of Pitt riding about from Downing Street to Wimbledon, and from Wimbledon to Cox Heath, to inspect military carriages, impregnable batteries, and Lord Chatham's reviews ? Can he possibly be serious in expecting Bonaparte now ? " Exactly similar to this was the opinion of Fox expressed exactly a year afterwards. He writes to Grey, August
214 ページ - Mr. Pitt was her earliest defender and friend in this country. He died in 1806, and but a few weeks afterwards the first inquiry into the conduct of Her Royal Highness began." But the more Mr. Pitt desired to shield her from her enemies, the more