 | John Merry Ross - 1877 - 625 pagina’s
...Minden and Quiberon, the power of France in Europe was shattered. ' We are forced,' said Horace Walpole, 'to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.' Pitt, however, found himself compelled to resign office after the accession of George III., then under... | |
 | Edith Thompson - 1878 - 488 pagina’s
...Brunswick, defeated the French in the battle of Minden, Aug. 1, 1759. " Indeed," wrote Horace Walpole, " one is forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one." 6. India. — In India an empire was being won. The chief European powers there were the French and... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1879 - 562 pagina’s
...Dutch at Chinsura. Off the coast of Brittany we prevailed in the great naval conflict of Quitieron ; off the coast of Portugal in the great naval conflict...King on this occasion bestowed on him a pension of 3,000i. a year for three lives, and raised Lady Hester to the peerage in her own right as Baroness... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - 364 pagina’s
...Asia under Pitt. " Who that died three years ago and could revive," he inquires, " would believe it? One is forced to ask every morning what victory there is for fear of missing one ! " The position now occupied by Pitt is the most brilliant that the annals of English political biography... | |
 | Louise Creighton - 1881 - 408 pagina’s
...taken they won many victories in Europe, both on land and sea. A writer at the time said, " We are forced to ask every morning what victory there is for fear of missing one." England had never been so great and important before. Men felt that this was Pitt's doing, and he became... | |
 | 1881 - 572 pagina’s
...the peerage the year after the accession of George III., at the time when, as Walpole said, ' We are forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.' Or, as Green more truly says, ' England had never played so great a part in the history of mankind.'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 pagina’s
...fortresses taken, provinces added to the empire.'* ' Indeed,' writes Horace Walpole, in November 1799, * one is forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.' To resolve on superseding such a rule, argued no common degree of boldness and self-confidence in the... | |
 | Alfred Rimmer - 1882 - 378 pagina’s
...the peerage the year after the accession of George III., at the time when, as Walpole said, " We are forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one." Or, as Green more truly says, " England had never played so great a part in the history of mankind."... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pagina’s
...mighty in Europe, Asia, and America. " Who that died three years ago and could revive would believe it ? One is forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one ! " The position now occupied by Pitt is the most brilliant that the annals of political biography... | |
 | Oscar Browning - 1884 - 180 pagina’s
...Pitt's government to the highest level of popularity. ' One is forced,' said the witty Horace Walpole, ' to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one.' Goree was subdued at the beginning of the year, then Guadaloupe, then Ticonderoga, then Niagara. The... | |
| |
Indeed," says Horace Walpole, in his lively style, " one is forced to ask every " morning what victory there is, for fear of missing " one ! 
