 We must not count with certainty on a continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval ; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation of Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen...  The Pamphleteer - Pagina 316geredigeerd door - 1813 - 296 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 472 pagina’s
...by disturbing public tranquillity, might prevent such a design; yet there never was a time, he said, in the history of this country, when, from the situation of Europe, fifteen years of peace might more reasonably be expected, than at the present moment. He went through... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1854 - 522 pagina’s
...not count with certainty on the continuance of our present prosperity; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when, from...years of peace than we may at the present moment."* While such was the conduct and the view of the Ministry, the members of the Whig Opposition were becoming... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 398 pagina’s
...on a continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval ; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when, from...years of peace, than we may at the present moment."* Having quoted this passage, I cannot refrain from adding to it the peroration of this celebrated speech,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pagina’s
...that fund would amount to in 1808. " There never was a time in the history of the country," he said, " when, from the situation of Europe, we might more...years of peace than we may at the present moment.''^ He displayed the great increase of revenue. He enlarged upon the causes of that increase, derived from... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 652 pagina’s
...that fund would amount to in 1808. " There never was a time in the history of the country," he said, " when, from the situation of Europe, we might more...fifteen years of peace than we may at the present moment."J He displayed the great increase of revenue. He enlarged upon the causes of that increase,... | |
 | 1862 - 514 pagina’s
...to a long future of diminishing taxation and expenditure, " unquestionably," he said, " there never was a time in the history of this country when from...years of peace than we may at the present moment."* " No one," Lord Grenville told Rogers, " could wish more to preserve peace with France. His heart was... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1864 - 540 pagina’s
...the sanguine predictions of Pitt in his speech on the budget of 1792. ' Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when, from...fifteen years of peace than we may at the present moment ' (see Lord Stanhope's Life of Pitt, vol. ii. p. 140.)— ED.] 2 [This took place on the resignation... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1867 - 342 pagina’s
...on the continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval, yet unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when, from...years of peace than we may at the present moment." He looked forward to the abolition of Customs' duties, which would have been at the same time the inauguration... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1867 - 460 pagina’s
...on the continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval, yet unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when from...fifteen years of peace than we may at the present moment."1 Proceeding on this conviction, Pitt asked the House to vote only 16,000 seamen, being 2000... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 636 pagina’s
...February, 1792, he unhesitatingly expressed his conviction in Parliament, that " unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from...more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment."* In like manner, when war had become inevitable, he pointed with his accustomed... | |
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