 | Reginald Jaffray Lucas - 1910 - 436 pages
...to assume the office of exclusively advising his Majesty and directing the operations of the war, to what purpose are we called in Council ? When he talks...House of Commons, and forgets that at this Board he is responsible only to the King . . . .' Granville's biographer, of course, undertakes a rebutting case.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1910 - 596 pages
...advising His Majesty and directing the operations of the war, to what purpose are we called to this council ? When he talks of being responsible to the...House of Commons, and forgets that at this board he is responsible only to the King. However, though he may possibly have convinced himself of his infallibility,... | |
 | Frederick William Longman - 1912 - 304 pages
...what purpose are we called to this council ? When he talks of being responsible to the people, he uses the language of the House of Commons, and forgets that at this board he is reponsible only to the king. However, though he may possibly have convinced himself of his own infallibility,... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1913 - 450 pages
...opinion of the majority becomes the measure, the rest is only execution. When, therefore, the gentleman talks of being responsible to the people he talks...Board he is only responsible to the King. However, though he may possibly have convinced himself of his infallibility, still it remains that we should... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1921 - 536 pages
...could still say honestly in a cabinet debate in 1761, as reported to us, in opposition to Pitt : " He forgets that at this board he is only responsible to the king." A modern minister, however, might say the same thing truthfully, referring to the form rather than... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1966 - 440 pages
...opinion of the majority becomes the measure, the rest is only execution. When, therefore, the gentleman talks of being responsible to the people he talks...Board he is only responsible to the King. However, though he may possibly have convinced himself of his infallibility, still it remains that we should... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1907 - 1084 pages
...advising His Majesty and directing the operations of the war, to what purpose are we called to this Council ? When he talks of being responsible to the...at this Board he is only responsible to the King." On October 5, 1761, William Pitt laid down the office which he had conducted so gloriously as to become... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1852 - 502 pages
...resolved to assume the right of directing the operations of the war, to what purpose are we called to this council ? When he talks of being responsible to the...House of Commons, and forgets that at this board he is responsible only to the king." l The Duke of Newcastle was never seen in hierher O spirits,1 than on... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 584 pages
...talked much at the council of being responsible to the people. Carteret said, ' when the gentleman talks of being responsible to the people, he talks...House of Commons, and forgets that at this Board he is responsible only to the King.' This report, as Lord Stanhope points out (iv. 241), rests on the authority... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1901 - 257 pages
...talks of being responsible to the people," retorted Lord Granville, the Lord Carteret of earlier days, "he talks the language of the house of commons, and...at this board he is only responsible to the king." But his appeal was heard by the people at la«ge. When the dismissed statesman went to Guildhall the... | |
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But if he be resolved to assume the right of advising his Majesty, and directing the operations of the war, to what purpose are we called to this council ? When he talks of being responsible to the people, he talks the language of the House of Commons,... 
