Quote#Hope
Alarms begin to operate a little. The fond hopes of instantaneously…
Quote byCharles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham · 1730–1782
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Duke of Portland (4 March 1777), quoted in S. Arthur Strong, A Catalogue of Letters and other Historical Documents Exhibited in the Library at Welbeck (1903), p. 134.
English (original)
Alarms begin to operate a little. The fond hopes of instantaneously subduing America are very much subsided. The Conduct of France begins to be deemed liable to suspicion.
— Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
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