 | 1844 - 616 str.
...sense enough to be conscious of his unfitness for the high situation which he held, and exclaimed, in a comical fit of despair, ' What shall I do? The...Grenville came to the rescue, and spoke strongly on his favorite theme, the profusion with which the late war had been carried on. That profusion, he said,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1845 - 488 str.
...esteemed a plain country gentleman of good sense, said himself afterwards, " People will point at me, and cry, there goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever appeared /" His famous measure was the tax on cider; and whoever would know more of his ability in... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 614 str.
...Hist. vol. xv. p. 1305. " I do ? " he exclaimed to some friends. " People CHAP, VT T " will point at me and cry : ' There goes the . ~* . " ' worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever 1763. " 'lived!'"* The matter of the new Budget pleased as little as its oratory. Sir Francis proposed,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 416 str.
...seldom — of his failure. " What shall I do ?" he exclaimed to some friends. "People will point at me and cry: 'There goes the worst " ' Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever lived ! ' " f The matter of the new Budget pleased as little as its oratory. Sir Francis proposed,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 414 str.
...seldom — of his failure. " What shall I do ? " he exclaimed to some friends. " People will point at me and cry : ' There " ' goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever "'lived!'":): The matter of the new Budget pleased as little as its oratory. Sir Francis proposed,... | |
 | William Massey - 1855 - 604 str.
...perceive, and the good humour to acknowledge, his own incapacity. ' People will point at me,' said he, ' and cry, — ' There goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever lived!" — WALPOLE'S History of George the Third, vol ip 250. (B. p. 276.) ' The fall of the ministers... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 str.
...had sense enough to bo conscious of his unfitness for the high situation which he held, and exclaimed in a comical fit of despair, " What shall I do ? The...strongly on his favourite theme, the profusion with \vhich the late war had been carried on. That profusion, he said, had made taxes necessary. He called... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 str.
...Dashwood, who was so conscious of his unfitness for his office, that he exclaimed, in a fit of comical despair, "What shall I do?. The boys will point at...worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever was-.' " INFLUENCE OB PITT'» NAME; "His dismissal from the- Ministry," thus wrote an accomplished Frenchman,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 468 str.
...to be eonseious of his unfitness for the high situation whieh he held, and exelaimed, in a eomieal fit of despair, "What shall I do? The boys will point at me in the street, and ery, ' There goes the worst ehaneellor of the exehequer that ever was ' " George Grenville eame to... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 624 str.
...Francis, indeed, laughed at his own incompeteucy. "People," he said, "will point at me in the streets, and cry, ' There goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever appeared ! ' " * Nevertheless, 1763. he had the hardihood to lay his Budget before the House of Commons,... | |
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There goes the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever was. 
