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WILLIAM PITT
AND
NATIONAL REVIVAL
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Fifth Edition. With many Maps and Plans and numerous
Illustrations from contemporary paintings, rare prints
and engravings, medals, etc.
In Two Volumes, Large Post 8vo. 18s. net.
Also a Cheaper Edition, without the Illustrations, 2 vols. 10s. net.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON I
INCLUDING NEW MATERIALS FROM THE BRITISH
OFFICIAL RECORDS
Second Edition, revised. Post 8vo. 5s. net.
NAPOLEONIC STUDIES
LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
Emery Walker Ph. sc.
William Pitt
as Chancellor of the Exchequer
from a painting by T. Gainsborough
WILLIAM PITT
AND
NATIONAL REVIVAL
BY
J. HOLLAND ROSE, Litt.D.
A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity; but you, gods, will give us
Some faults to make us men.
Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.
LONDON
G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
1911
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.