 | William Cobbett - 1820
...have fatally put their hands to this treaty, have signed the death-warrant of their country. They have given it a blow, under which it may languish for a...conceive how it is possible for it ever to recover. I feel how very unpleasant it is to deal in predictions, which I who make them most devoutly wish may... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1862
...weakness, fatally put their hands to this treaty, have signed the death-warrant of their country. They have given it a blow under which it may languish for a...conceive how it is possible for it ever to recover." On the 3rd of November there was moved in both Houses an Address to the King in approval of the peace.... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1867
...weakness, fatally put their hands to this treaty, have signed the death-warrant of their country. They have given it a blow under which it may languish for a...conceive how it is possible for it ever to recover." On the 3rd of November there was moved in both Houses an Address to the King in approval of the peace.... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1879
...weakness, fatally put their hands to this treaty, have signed the death-warrant of their country. They have given it a blow under which it may languish for a...conceive how it is possible for it ever to recover.' On the 3rd of November there was moved in both Houses an Address to the King in approval of the peace.... | |
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... bottom of my heart and with the solemnity of a death-bed declaration (a situation much resembling that in which we all stand), when I declare that my hon. friends who, in a moment of rashness and weakness, fatally put their hands to this treaty, have... 