 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 552 頁
...been extremely unfavourable for a day or two, so that we have been inactive. I am so far recovered as to do business ; but my constitution is entirely...service to the state ; or without any prospect of it. I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 528 頁
...been extremely unfavourable for a day or two, so that we have been inactive. I am so far recovered as to do business ; but my constitution is entirely...service to the state ; or without any prospect of it. I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 頁
...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 is 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 頁
...been extremely unfavourable for a day or two, so that we have been inactive. I am so far recovered as to do business ; but my constitution is entirely...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 - 1841 - 350 頁
...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 is entirely...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... | |
 | George Warburton - 1849 - 528 頁
...enemy from other points ; it concludes in the following desponding words : — " I am so far recovered as to do business, but my constitution is entirely...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 - 1850 - 376 頁
...the enemy from other points: it concludes in the following desponding words : " I am so far recovered as to do business, but my constitution is entirely...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... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 446 頁
...concluding words : — "I am so far " recovered as to do business, but my constitution is en" tirely ruined, without the consolation of having done " any...never to lose hope of success in an honourable cause. The aid of Providence, as it should never be presumed on, so it should never be despaired of. Within... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 566 頁
...was still suffering under the effects of his late fever. " My constitution," writes he to a friend, " is entirely ruined, without the consolation of having done any considerable service to the state, and without any prospect of it." Still he was unremitting in his exertions, seeking to wipe out the... | |
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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. 
