 We must not count with certainty on a continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval ; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation of Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen...  The Literary World - Page 661882Full view - About this book
 | Elliot H. Goodwin - 1965 - 776 pages
...that 'unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when, from the situation in Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than we may at the present time'.2 2. ARMIES By the end of its existence the ancien regime had reached the limit of its powers... | |
 | Reginald James White - 1967 - 308 pages
...derided, prophecy in his Budget Speech of 17 February 1792: 'Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when, from the situation of...more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment.' This was certainly not the speech of a warmonger on the watch for a chance... | |
 | Gunther E. Rothenberg - 1980 - 296 pages
...of Commons that 'there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation in Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than we may at the present moment'. But that was not to be. There would be no 'peace in our time'. Instead, within a month, there began... | |
 | Jeremy Black - 1994 - 578 pages
...in the Commons on 17 February 1792, he predicted fifteen years peace: 'there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of...years of peace than we may at the present moment'. Two days earlier, Talleyrand had suggested to Grenville a mutual guarantee of European and colonial... | |
 | William Simpson, Martin Desmond Jones - 2000 - 410 pages
...inconclusive, but Pitt declared soon afterwards to the House of Commons that 'there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of...years of peace than we may at the present moment' which suggested a comfortable isolation from the threat of war (cited in IR Christie, Wars and Revolutions,... | |
 | Christon I. Archer - 2002 - 648 pages
...of Commons that "there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation in Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than we may at the present moment." The truly revolutionary nature of the new relationship between the French nation and the art of war... | |
 | N. A. M. Rodger - 2005 - 1022 pages
...of reducing debt and falling taxation, Pitt declared, unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation...fifteen years of peace, than we may at the present moment.39 Nine weeks later the European war began. TWENTY-FOUR Plans of Improvement Administration... | |
 | Noel Mostert - 2008 - 800 pages
...certainty on a continuance of our present prosperity . . . but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation...years of peace, than we may at the present moment.' It was a dizzily wishful utterance from a British premier standing in sight of a world already on the... | |
 | 1945 Lees Knowles lectures - 1945 - 104 pages
...the long war of the French Revolution and Empire, that Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of...more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment. * And again, more than a century later, we see successive British Governments... | |
 | 1957 - 1512 pages
...of our present prosperity during such an interval; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when, from the situation of Europe, we might more reasonably expect IS years of peace, than we may at the present moment. A year later the War of the French Revolution... | |
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