| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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