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" Pitt was the greatest fool that ever existed to encourage a mode of war which those who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it. "
Robert Fulton, Engineer and Artist: His Life and Works - Side 182
af Henry Winram Dickinson - 1913 - 333 sider
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The Life of Robert Fulton

Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 sider
...dignity, exclaimed against Mr. Pitt for encouraging a mode of warfare, which he said, with great reason, they who commanded the seas did not want, and which if successful, would wrest the trident from those who then claimed to bear it as the sceptre of su-, premacy on the ocean....
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The Quarterly Review, Bind 19

1818 - 606 sider
...for the strong. Fulton says, ' I explained to him a torpedo : he reflected for some time, and then said, " Pitt was the greatest fool that ever existed...which they who commanded the seas did not want;'" but Mr. Fulton soon found that ' Pitt' was no such fool. To satisfy his noisy relation in the House...
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The Quarterly Review, Bind 19

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 sider
...for the strong. Fulton says, ' I explained to him a torpedo : he reflected for some time, and then said, " Pitt was the greatest fool that ever existed...which they who commanded the seas did not want;"' but Mr. Fulton soon found that ' Pitt' was no such fool. To satisfy his noisy relation in the House...
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The London Quarterly Review, Bind 19

1819 - 630 sider
...for the strong. Fulton says, ' I explained to him a torpedo : he reflected for some time, and then said, " Pitt was the greatest fool that ever existed...war which they who commanded the seas did not want ;'' ' but Mr. Fulton soon found that ' Pitt' was no such fool. To satisfy his noil? relation in the...
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An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States ...

Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 sider
...in the saying of Lord St. Vincent, the authenticity of which the Reviewers do not dispute. " Pitt is the greatest fool that ever existed to encourage a mode of war which they who command the seas do not want." Mr. Pitt, it would seem from the statement of Mr. Colden, remarked,...
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Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising Above ..., Bind 1

Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 sider
...dignity, exclaimed against Mr Pitt for encouraging a mode of warfare, which he said, with great reason, they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would wrest the trident from those who then claimed to bear it as the sceptre of supremacy on the ocean....
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished ...

Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 sider
...strong language of his profession, against this mode of warfare, which, he said, with great reason, they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would wrest the trident from those who claimed to bear it as the sceptre of supremacy over the ocean. From...
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also Lives of Distinguished ...

Henry Howe - 1858 - 526 sider
...strong language of his profession, against this mode of warfare, which, he said, with great reason, they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would wrest the trident from those who claimed to bear it as the sceptre of supremacy over the ocean. From...
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Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Bind 14

1871 - 592 sider
...by armour or by darkness, little can be expected from it. Karl St. Vincent truly described this as " a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did...and which, if successful, would deprive them of it." Its claim upon our attention now is, that in a maritime war, it will add immensely to the offensive...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Bind 5;Bind 85

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1872 - 858 sider
...supremacy from such devices ; Lord St. Vincent, then First Lord of the Admiralty, bluntly averring that ' Pitt was the greatest fool that ever existed to encourage a mode of war which those who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it.' The...
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