 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1840 - 528 pages
...affairs at this moment is contained in a letter from the Earl of Chesterfield to Mr. Dayrolles : — "Whoever is in, or whoever is out, I am sure we are...home and abroad : at home, by our increasing debt and expences ; abroad, by our ill-luck and incapacity. The King of Prussia, the only ally we had in the... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...Africa the French settlements at the Senegal and ever is in, or whoever is out, I am sure that vre are undone both at home and abroad; at home by our increasing debt and expenses; abroad by our ill-luck and incapacity. The king of Prussia, the only ally we had in the world, is now I fear hors... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...never before known. " Whoever is in, or whoever is out," writes Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Dayrolles, " I am sure we are undone both at home and abroad —...our increasing debt and expenses — abroad, by our ill luck and incapacity. The king of Prussia, the only ally we had in the worm, is now, I fear, hors... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1844 - 608 pages
...float away into some unknown ocean !"* — "Who" ever is in, or whoever is out," writes ChesterfIeld, " I am sure we are undone both at home and " abroad...our increasing debt and " expenses ; abroad by our ill-luck and inca" parity. . . . We are no longer a nation. I never " yet saw so dreadful a prospect."f... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...float away into some unknown ocean !"* — "Who" ever is in, or whoever is out," writes Chesterfield, " I am sure we are undone both at home and " abroad...our increasing debt and " expenses ; abroad by our ill-luck and inca" pacity. . . . We are no longer a nation. I never " yet saw so dreadful a prospect."f... | |
 | English essays - 1845 - 732 pages
...float away into some unknown ocean !' ' Whoever is in, or whoever is out," •writes Chesterfield, ' I am sure we are undone both at home and abroad ;...by our increasing debt and expenses ; abroad by our ill luck and incapacity."' (p. 162.) How changed the scene in 1761, when Pitt retired ! He found the... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 642 pages
...passed : the details would £11 reams of paper, which you would not have time to read, nor I to write. Whoever is in, or whoever is out, I am sure we are...home and abroad; at home, by our increasing debt and expences ; abroad by our ill luck and incapacity. The King of Prussia, the only ally we had in the... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1849 - 528 pages
...of state (29th June, 1757) is contained in a letter from Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Dayrolles : — " Whoever is in or whoever is out, I am sure we are undone both at home and abroad : at home, by This illustrious man knew no party but the British nation, acknowledged no other interest. To exalt... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1850 - 376 pages
...secretary of state (29th of June, 1757) is contained in a letter from Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Dayrolles : "Whoever is "in or whoever is out, I am sure we are...abroad : at home, by our increasing debt and expenses j abroad, by our ill luck and incapacity. ..... The French are masters to do what they please in America.... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 528 pages
...and float away to some unknown ocean !' ' Whoever is in, or whoever is out,' writes Chesterfield, ' I am sure we are undone both at home and abroad: at...by our increasing debt and expenses; abroad, by our ill-luck and incapacity. . . . "We are no longer a nation. I never yet saw so dreadful a prospect.'"... | |
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it is time for England to slip her cables and float away into some unknown ocean;" and Lord Chesterfield wrote, " whoever is in, or whoever is out... 
