 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1834 - 52 pages
...rerum Roma." He saw his country insulted and defeated. He saw the national spirit sinking. Yet he knew what the resources of the empire, vigorously employed,...vigorously. " My Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " 1 am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can." Desiring, then, to be in power,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...rerum Roma.' He saw the country insulted and defeated. He saw the national spirit sinking. Yet he knew what the resources of the empire vigorously employed...to employ them vigorously. ' My lord,' he said to tho duke of Devonshire, ' I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.' Desiring... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pages
...rerum Roma." He saw his country insulted and defeated. He saw the national spirit sinking. Yet he knew what the resources of the empire, vigorously employed,...effect; and he felt that he was "the man to employ them rigorously. " My Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1844 - 608 pages
...and ever guided him onwards ; — his country's glory and his own. " My " Lord," he once exclaimed to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, " and that nobody else can !"* His rival was found more pliant. The King having returned from Hanover, a few days afterwards,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...and ever guided him onwards ; — his country's glory and his own. " My " Lord," he once exclaimed to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, " and that nobody else can !"* His rival was found more pliant. The King having returned from Hanover, a few days afterwards,... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...eyes and ever guided him onwards; — his country's glory and his own." " My Lord," he once exclaimed to the Duke of Devonshire, "I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can !" (p. 77-) " 1 want," he exclaimed upon another occasion, "to call this country out of that enervate... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...rerum Roma." He saw his country insulted and defeated. He saw the national spirit sinking. Yet he knew by its outbreak is forgotten. The landmarks which...away have been replaced. The ruined edifices hare tod," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, •• I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody... | |
 | George Warburton - 1849 - 528 pages
...eyes, and ever guided him onward, — his country's glory and his own. ' My Lord ! ' he once exclaimed to the Duke of Devonshire, ' I am sure that I can save this country, and that no one else can ! ' " — Lord Mahon's Hist, of England, vol. iv., p. 77. K2 like of his majesty to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...rerum Roma." He saw his country insulted and defeated. He saw the national spirit sinking. Yet he knew what the resources of the empire, vigorously employed, could effect; and he felt that he was ihe man to employ them vigorously. "My lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...sufficient courage or capacity to undertake the task. Pitt had said to the Duke of Devonshire, " My Lord, I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can." The people believed him. " The eyes of an afflicted and despairing nation," says Glover, who was far... | |
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Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can. 
