Pitt. E-book. Formato PDF Lord Rosebery   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

With such parents, the younger Pitt was born a politician; his rare qualities of mind were from his earliest childhood directed and trained for parliamentary work. It did not, indeed, at first appear probable that he would survive to realise the designs of his father, who himself had suffered from the gout before leaving Eton. A feeble constitution hardly-promised life, much less vigour; but, fortified by ?oods of port Wine — the prescrip tion of Lord Chatham's favourite physician, Dr. Addington, the father of the Prime Minister — it enabled him to live to be forty-seven, and sustain for near twenty years, almost unaided, the government of the country. From six to fourteen, however, his health was so indifferent that for more than half that period he was unable to apply himself to study; and, when at the latter age he went as an undergraduate to Cambridge, it stands recorded that he was accompanied by a nurse. In the autumn of that year (1773) his disorder reached its crisis; he returned home dangerously ill; but, on his recovery, he seems to have secured a share of health sufficient for the purposes of public life, and troubled only by periodic fits of the gout, then the appanage of statesmanship, which he owed less to his original disease than its original remedy.

The Budget; Its Principles Scope: A Speech Delivered to a Meeting of the Commercial Community of Glasgow, Sept; 10, 1909. E-book. Formato PDF Lord Rosebery   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is difficult to know whether any one who is outside politics should under any circumstances return to them; for his reappearance has the air of an intrusion, and is therefore resented. On the other hand there are occasions when common honour and honesty seem to compel any one who has deep convictions not to withhold them from his fellow-countrymen.I think the crisis in which this speech was delivered is one of this kind. It is of course painful to any one to have to put himself in opposition to old friends and to a party with which he was long connected. As, however, the Liberal critics of the speech have all declared that it is wholly ineffectual and vapid, they have evidently sustained no damage by its delivery.I may notice, however, the allegation that I have suddenly left the Liberal Party. I think the fact would be more accurately stated if it was alleged that the Liberal Party had left me. They have gone ahead with alarming velocity: I, on the other hand, have proceeded perhaps too slowly. I am much where I was, they have shot far in advance. Still it is not I who have left them, but it is they who have left me behind.I am where I was five, ten, thirteen years ago in respect of party ties.