 | John Murdoch Harper - 1909 - 336 pages
...bullets of the enemy, this is how his companion in arms spoke of him in the hearing of the Empire : "I am not ashamed to own to you, that my heart does...If the world were sensible at how dear a price we purchased Quebec in his death, it would damp the general joy. Our best consolation is that Providence... | |
 | Stephen Brumwell - 2006 - 460 pages
...now hardly speak highly enough of his late 'friend' and commander. Amongst other tributes, he wrote: 'If the world were sensible at how dear a price we...purchased Quebec in his death, it would damp the general joy.'39 In some quarters the unseemly controversy was seen as a deliberate effort to diminish Pitt's... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1858 - 610 pages
...respecting his heroic friend,* whose fate threw so affecting a lustre on this memorable victory : " I am not ashamed to own to you, that my heart does...our country has lost a sure support and a perpetual honor. If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased Quebec in his death, it would... | |
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If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased Quebec in his death, it would damp the public joy. Our best consolation is, that Providence seemed not to promise that he should remain long among us. He was himself sensible of the weakness... 
