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Lädt ... William Pitt and the Great Warvon J. Holland Rose
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Gehört zur ReiheWilliam Pitt (2)
In the former volume, entitled "William Pitt and National Revival," I sought to trace the career of Pitt the Younger up to the year 1791. Until then he was occupied almost entirely with attempts to repair the evils arising out of the old order of things. Retrenchment and Reform were his first watchwords; and though in the year 1785 he failed in his efforts to renovate the life of Parliament and to improve the fiscal relations with Ireland, yet his domestic policy in the main achieved a surprising success. Scarcely less eminent, though far less known, were his services in the sphere of diplomacy. In the year 1783, when he became First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, nearly half of the British Empire was torn away, and the remainder seemed to be at the mercy of the allied Houses of Bourbon. France, enjoying the alliance of Spain and Austria and the diplomatic wooings of Catharine II and Frederick the Great, gave the law to Europe. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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His last words are given as: "My country! How I leave my country!"
Scott's epitaph to Pitt (in Marmion):
" Now is the stately column broke
The beacon-light is quenched in smoke,
The trumpet's silver sound is still
The warder silent on the hill."
These volumes were very good to read, and were a good refresher for the years involved. ( )