 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1840 - 528 pages
...to an action. I agreed to the proposal ; and we are now here, with about three thousand six hundred men, waiting an opportunity to attack them, when and...without any prospect of it. I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble servant, JAM. WOLFE. DR.... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...that General Wolfe wrote to his patron — were penned only four days before his glorious death : ' I am so far recovered as to do business ; ' but my...having done any considerable service to the state ; or with' out any prospect of it.' The King of Prussia's opinion of Mr Pitt is given in some very remarkable... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
...last that General Wolfe wrote to his patron — were penned only four days before his glorious death: 'I am so far recovered as to do business; but my constitution...entirely ruined, without the consolation of having dene any considerable service to the state; or without any prospect of it.' The King of Prussia's opinion... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...to an action. I agreed to the proposal ; and we are now here, with about three thousand six hundred men, waiting an opportunity to attack them, when and...service to the state, or without any prospect of it." Walpole, however, in his animated description of the capture of Quebec, in his Memoires, does ample... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 350 pages
...last that General Wolfe wrote to his patron—were penned only four days before his glorious death: " I am so far recovered as to do business; but my constitution...service to the state; or without any prospect of it." The King of Prussia's opinion of Mr. Pitt is given in some very remarkable expressions, in an extract... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...and divert it from other quarters.* Here are his own concluding words : — " I am so far reco" vered as to do business, but my constitution is " entirely...service to the state, or " without any prospect of it." — Let him who reads these words, and their event, learn from them never to lose hope of success in... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1844 - 608 pages
...and divert it from other quarters.* Here are his own concluding words : — " I am so far reco" vered as to do business, but my constitution is " entirely...service to the state, or " without any prospect of it." — Let him who reads these words, and their event, learn from them never to lose hope of success in... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1849 - 528 pages
...the attention of the enemy from other points ; it concludes in the following desponding words : — " I am so far recovered as to do business, but my constitution...service to the state, or without any prospect of it." But while he wrote almost in despair, he acted as if he had never doubted of success. On the llth of... | |
 | George Warburton - Canada - 1850 - 376 pages
...divert the attention of the enemy from other points: it concludes in the following desponding words : " I am so far recovered as to do business, but my constitution...service to the state, or without any prospect of it." But while he wrote almost in despair, he acted as if he had never doubted of success. On the llth of... | |
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I am so far recovered as to do business ; but my constitution is entirely ruined, without the consolation of having done any considerable service to the state, or without any prospect of it. 
