 | Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald (11th Earl of), Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 420 pages
...attempt to do good by half measures under the present circumstances of Greece. Kolokotrones is VOL. n. o ready, on the spot, to take possession of Patras...The mental fever I contracted in Greece has not yet subsided, nor will it probably for some months to come." Lord Cochrane might well be suffering from... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - 1882 - 512 pages
...Greece, he was glad to be " clear of a country in which ungrateful soil," he wrote to a fellow-labourer, "there is no hope of amelioration for half a century...or competent ruler, appointed and supported by the mediating powers." His fighting career had closed and his sole efforts were now confined to obtaining... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - 1882 - 510 pages
...Greece, he was glad to be " clear of a country in which ungrateful soil," he wrote to a fellow-labourer, "there is no hope of amelioration for half a century...or competent ruler, appointed and supported by the mediating powers." His fighting career had closed and his sole efforts were now confined to obtaining... | |
 | Sir John William Fortescue - 1895 - 262 pages
...seaman closed his fighting career. " Thank God," he wrote to a friend " we are clear of a country where there is no hope of amelioration for half a century to come." That half -century is now nearly twenty years past, and the condition of Greece is still a disappointment... | |
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we are both clear of a country in which there is no hope of amelioration for half a century to come ; unless, indeed, immigration shall take place to a great extent, under some king, or competent ruler, appointed and supported by the Governments of the... 