 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pàgines
...perhaps, that England had ever yet known, , — an administration not always, indeed, free from 1757. haste or error in its schemes, and no doubt owing...her cables and " float away into some unknown ocean !"* — "Who" ever is in, or whoever is out," writes Chesterfield, " I am sure we are undone both at... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1844 - 608 pàgines
...perhaps, that England had ever yet known, L — an administration not always, indeed, free from J757. haste or error in its schemes, and no doubt owing...her cables and " float away into some unknown ocean !"* — "Who" ever is in, or whoever is out," writes ChesterfIeld, " I am sure we are undone both at... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 532 pàgines
...but ruin and disaster were foreseen and foretold ! No one trusted to the national spirit, or deemed what it might effect if vigorously roused and skilfully...time for England to slip her cables and float away to some unknown ocean !' 'Whoever is in, or whoever is out/ writes Chesterfield, ' I am sure we are... | |
 | Neville B. Craig - 1851 - 322 pàgines
...there. Some of the wisest men of England were greatly discouraged. Horace Walpole in a letter said, " 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, I am sure we are " undone both at... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 608 pàgines
...can be justly required, an administration pre-eminently strong at home and victorious abroad,—an administration which even now is pointed at with equal...slip her cables and " float away into some unknown ocean!"*—"Who" ever is in, or whoever is out," writes Chesterfield, " I am sure we are undone both... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 524 pàgines
...squadron of nineteen ships of the line. When this account came, Horace TValpole might well write, " It is time for England to slip her cables, and float away into some unknown ocean." t To crown the misfortunes of the first three months of Pitt's administration, there were serious disturbances... | |
 | 1875 - 630 pàgines
...never yet saw so dreadful a prospect.' In a letter to Mann, Sept. 3rd, 1757, Horace Walpole writes:—' It is time for England to slip her cables, and float away into some unknown ocean.' The personal composition of the Cabinet of 1757 is a fertile subject for the caustic pen of the Autobiographer.... | |
 | 1875 - 632 pàgines
...yet saw so dreadful a prospect.' In a letter to Mann, Sept. 3rd, 1757, Horace Walpole writes : — ' It is time for England to slip her cables, and float away into some unknown ocean.' The personal composition of the Cabinet of 1757 is a fertile subject for the caustic pen of the Autobiographer.... | |
 | Edith Thompson - 1878 - 488 pàgines
...and shrewdest men in the country shared in the general despair. " It is time," wrote Horace Walpole, "for England to slip her cables and float away into some unknown ocean." " We are no longer a nation," was the expression of the calm and polished Lord Chesterfield. Since... | |
 | 1879 - 834 pàgines
...We are no longer a nt\tion. I never yet saw so dreadful a prospect." Horace Walpole declared, — " It is time for England to slip her cables and float away into some unknown ocean." The only difference between each utterances and those of Liberal 756 Political Rabies. 757 statesmen... | |
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Walpole and Lord Chesterfield, and the language of both at this period is fraught with the deepest despondency. According to the former : "It is time for England to slip her cables and " float away into some unknown ocean... 
