 | 1830 - 590 pages
...the villains and villainies this country abounds ' in, I should never have done '. — ' I am sorry to leave this ' country, in the condition it is in...that we have ' done, has been a little blood-letting! Expressions like these are not to be mistaken; and even if it were practicable to give them, in connexion... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 672 pages
...country abounds in, I should never have done."* 1746. And again, from Fort Augustus : — " I am sorry " to leave this country in the condition it is in ;...may still be the ruin " of this island and of our family." t The license of the soldiery was not curbed in Scotland till July, when His Royal Highness... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 pages
...country abounds in, I should never have done (2)." And again, from Fort Augustus : — "I am sorry to leave this " country in the condition it is in...have " done has been a little blood-letting, which hasonly weakened the " madness but not at all cured it ; and I tremble for fear that this " vile spot... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 pages
...committing, by his moveable columns, his royal highness was pleased to style " a little blood-lettiiuj, which has only weakened the madness, but not at all cured it."* " If," says he, " we had destroyed every man of them, such is the soil, rebellion would sprout out... | |
 | LORD MAHON - 1851 - 210 pages
...this country abounds in, I "should never have done."f And again, from Fort Augustus: — "I am sorry to leave this country in the " condition it is in;..." has been a little blood-letting, which has only weak" ened the madness but not at all cured it; and I tremble " for fear that this vile spot may still... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 634 pages
...Fort Augustus:—" I am sorry to • '. " leave this country in the condition it is in ; for 1746. " all the good that we have done has been a little "...may still be the ruin " of this island and of our family. "f The licence of the soldiery was not curbed in Scotland till July, when His Royal Highness... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 470 pages
...this country abounds in, I should never have done." ** And again, from Fort Augustus: — "I am sorry to leave this country in the condition it is in; for...only " weakened the madness but not at all cured it ; andl tremble "for fear that this vile spot may still be the ruin of this island "and of our family."***... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 458 pages
...this country abounds in, I "should never have done." I And again, from Fort Augustus: — "I am sorry to leave this country in the •" condition it is...done "has been a little blood-letting, which has only weak'" ened the madness but not at all cured it ; and I tremble " for fear that this vile spot may... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1860 - 528 pages
...crime against his house, to be dealt with in a spirit of revenge. " I tremble," he wrote from Scotland, "for fear that this vile spot may still be the ruin of this island and of our family." In another letter he says that " a little blood-letting has only weakened the madness and... | |
 | 1870 - 784 pages
...abounds in, he should never have done. From Fort Augustus he thus writes to the Minister: " I am sorry to leave this country in the condition it is in; for...blood-letting, which has only weakened the madness, not cured it."£ In a letter of Horace Walpole's dated only a week or two later than this of HRH, we... | |
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to leave this country in the condition it is in ; " for all the good that we have done has been a " little blood-letting, which has only weakened the " madness but not at all cured it ; and I tremble " for fear that this vile spot may still be the ruin... 
