12 Metaphors for pitt

Pitt was the superior, even by the confession of Lord Macaulay.

" Now, nothing vexed the old gentleman more than to hear William Pitt called by his tardy honors; and yet, unwilling to give up what he thought his political opinions, he exclaimed, with an unanswerable positiveness of argument, "Billy Pitt, sir, was the minister, sir; butbutbuthe was our minister, sir.

the antecedent is applied metaphorically, the pronoun usually agrees with it in its literal, and not in its figurative sense; as, "Pitt was the pillar which upheld the state.

Pitt and Fox and Burke and Warren Hastings were not weak men, and yet were they all extremely proud of their gardens.

Mr. Pitt was a most proper gentleman.

Pitt was the type of pagan who consents to persecute; and his place is with Pilate.

Pre-eminent in no single direction, he was in the main the greatest political genius that has been elevated to the presidential chair; but perhaps greater as a politician than as a statesman in the sense that Pitt, Canning, and Peel were statesmen.

When Pitt became Paymaster-General of England he at once declined to use the two chief perquisites of his office, the interest on the government balance and the half per cent commission on foreign subsidies, though both were regarded as a kind of indirect salary.

" Pitt's Coalition Ministry, formed in June, 1757, in which Pitt and Lord Holdernesse were Secretaries of State, the Duke of Newcastle First Lord of the Treasury, Legge Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Granville, Lord Temple, Sir Robert Henley, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Bedford, and Henry Fox held office, moved Lady Mary to merriment.

Pitt, or was it Pepys?

While Pitt was the embodied representative of Order, his rival was the Apostle and Evangelist of Liberty.

His energies were enlisted in favor of the Governmental party, of which Mr. Pitt had become the leader.

12 Metaphors for  pitt