 | 1923 - 796 Seiten
...reason that they lend color to Mr. Thayer 's statement. In February, 1782, William Pitt said : ' ' Never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation in Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment." But... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1924 - 1276 Seiten
...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...more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment. Imagination pictures what might possibly have been the outcome of events if... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1923 - 1282 Seiten
...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 f of Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than) at the present moment. Imagination... | |
 | Robert Beverley Pargiter, Harold Griffin Eady - 1927 - 244 Seiten
...was quite unprepared. Speaking in February, 1792, the younger Pitt, then Prime Minister, had said : " Unquestionably there never was a time in the history...more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment." Actually, England was on the threshold of the most desperate struggle she had... | |
 | 1928 - 328 Seiten
...broke out, which were to devastate Europe for over twenty years, Pitt, in his budget speech, said : " Unquestionably there never was a time in the history...more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment." (2) When the war had broken out, Grenville wrote to his brother, of the episode... | |
 | Elliot H. Goodwin - 1965 - 776 Seiten
...the situation was such that Pitt could advise a reduction of the naval estimates on the ground that 'unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when, from the situation in Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than we may at the present time'.2... | |
 | Reginald James White - 1967 - 308 Seiten
...that led him to make his most famous, and most derided, prophecy in his Budget Speech of 17 February 1792: 'Unquestionably there never was a time in the...more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment.' This was certainly not the speech of a warmonger on the watch for a chance... | |
 | Gunther E. Rothenberg - 1980 - 296 Seiten
...Introducing the budget in February 1792, Prime Minister Pitt assured the House of Commons that 'there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation in Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than we may at the present moment'.... | |
 | Jeremy Black - 1994 - 578 Seiten
...Pitt's mood when, in the Commons on 17 February 1792, he predicted fifteen years peace: 'there never was a time in the history of this country when from...years of peace than we may at the present moment'. Two days earlier, Talleyrand had suggested to Grenville a mutual guarantee of European and colonial... | |
 | William Simpson, Martin Desmond Jones - 2000 - 410 Seiten
...results were inconclusive, but Pitt declared soon afterwards to the House of Commons that 'there never was a time in the history of this country when from...years of peace than we may at the present moment' which suggested a comfortable isolation from the threat of war (cited in IR Christie, Wars and Revolutions,... | |
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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... 
