 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1853 - 322 pages
...167 the Speaker then rose, and, after recapitulating the great services of the Duke, he said : — " For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you...to offer us your acknowledgments; but this nation will know that it is still largely your debtor. It owes to you the proud satisfaction, that, amidst... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 pages
...times, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary minds, stood nevertheless unshaken ; and that ascendency of character which, uniting the energies of jealous...fate and fortunes of mighty empires. For the repeated grants and thanks bestowed upon you by this house, in gratitude for your many and eminent services,... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1855 - 618 pages
...fortitude, which in perilous times, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary minds, stood nevertheless :{ 4P ] % FY &Qls bZ g'Χ J (a: R 1. ҳ> Ɓ... [G ̃ 9 j H s 0 hͤimN%j l % r Sj_ ҋ ?\\ r =@b^s fi: this iiay to offer your acknowledgment* ; but thii nation well knows that it is still largely your... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1855 - 442 pages
...fortitude, which in perilous times, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary minds, stood nevertheless unshaken ; and that ascendancy of character, which,...bestowed upon you by this House, in gratitude for your eminent services, you have thought fit this day to offer us your acknowledgments ; but this nation... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1855 - 670 pages
...perilous times, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary minds, stood nevertheless unshaken ; •4d that ascendancy of character, which, uniting the energies...bestowed upon you by this House, in gratitude for your eminent services, you have thought fit this day to offer us your acknowledgments ; but this nation... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pages
...fortitude which, in perilous times, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary minds, stood nevertheless unshaken ; and that ascendancy of character which,...you to wield at will the fate and fortunes of mighty «mpires. " For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this House, in gratitude for your... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1867 - 606 pages
...success was eloquently ascribed by Mr. Abbot, the Speaker of the House of Commons, to ' that ascendency of character which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled him to wield at will the fate and fortunes of mighty empires ;' and we cannot do better than add the... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 pages
...fortitude, which, in perilous times, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary minds, stood, nevertheless, unshaken ; — and that ascendancy of character, which,...eminent services, you have thought fit this day to otter us your acknowledgments ; but this mtiou well knows that it is still largely your debtor. It... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1318 pages
...fortitude which, \n perilous times, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary minds, stood nevertheless unshaken ; and that ascendancy of character which,...thought fit this day to offer us your acknowledgments. Hut this nation well knows that it is still largely your debtor. It owes to you the proud satisfaction... | |
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... spirit which inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of victory ; that moral courage and enduring fortitude, which in perilous times, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary minds,... 
