 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.  Life of George Washington - Stran 271avtor: Washington Irving - 1856Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 528 strani
...or two, so that we have been inactive. 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. I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, Your Lordship's... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 552 strani
...or two, so that we have been inactive. 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. I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, Your Lordship's... | |
 | 1839 - 804 strani
...or two, so that we have been inactive. 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. I have the honour to be, with great respect, my lord, your lordship's... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 strani
...or two, so that we have been inactive. 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." Walpole, however, in his animated description of the capture of Quebec,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 350 strani
...four days before his glorious death: " 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." The King of Prussia's opinion of Mr. Pitt is given in some very remarkable... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 strani
...arc his own concluding words : — " I am so far reco" vered 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." — Let him who reads these words, and their event, learn from them... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1844 - 608 strani
...are his own concluding words : — " I am so far reco" vered 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." — Let him who reads these words, and their event, learn from them... | |
 | George Warburton - 1849 - 528 strani
...the following desponding words : — " 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." But while he wrote almost in despair, he acted as if he had never doubted... | |
 | 1850 - 600 strani
...and his ruling passion. ' I am so far recovered,' he says, ' 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.' Dr. Robinson, afterward an eminent professor in the University of Edinburgh,... | |
 | George Warburton - 1850 - 376 strani
...in the following desponding words : " 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." But while he wrote almost in despair, he acted as if he had never doubted... | |
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