 | Charles Stuart Parker - 1907 - 508 strani
...force under his command in some desperate enterprise, where the chances of success would not counteract the risk of failure and of the fatal consequences...being uncontrollable it might lead to most unfortunate results. The Cabinet, on the most careful review of the entire question, decided that the appointment... | |
 | Charles Stuart Parker - 1907 - 512 strani
...force under his command in some desperate enterprise, where the chances of success would not counteract the risk of failure and of the fatal consequences...being uncontrollable it might lead to most unfortunate results. The Cabinet, on the most careful review of the entire question, decided that the appointment... | |
 | Hugh Noel Williams - 1917 - 466 strani
...the chances of success would not counteract the risk of failure and of the fatal consequences that might ensue. Age has not abated the adventurous spirit...uncontrollable, it might lead to most unfortunate results. The Cabinet, on the most careful review of the entire question, decided that the appointment... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - 1907 - 866 strani
...Commander-in-Chief for the Fleet about to be appointed for Service in the Baltic.2. . . Lord Dundonald 3 is seventy-nine years of age ; and though his energies...appointment by favour, and of promotion by seniority alone. 1 War had not yet been declared, but the Russian Ambassador left London on the 7th of February, and... | |
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Dundonald 3 is seventy-nine years of age ; and though his energies and faculties are unbroken, and though, with his accustomed courage, he volunteers for the Service, yet, on the whole, there is reason to apprehend that he might deeply commit the Force... 