PAST DEPRESSIONS
PROPHETS WHO WERE WRONG.
William Pitt said: "There is scarce Iy anything around us but ruin and despair."
Wilberforce in the early 1800's said: "I dare 'not marry, the future is so dark and unsettled."
Lord Grey in 1819 "believed everything was tending to a convulsion."
The Duke of Wellington on the eve of bis death (1853) "thanked God he would be spared from seeing the consummation of ruin that is gathering about us."
Disraeli (1849) said: "In industry, commerce, and agriculture, there is no hope." Queen Adelaide said she "had only one desire to play the part of Marie Antoinette with bravery in the revolution that was coming on England."
Lord Shaftesbury (1848): "Nothingcould save the British Empire from shipwreck."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3401, 2 August 1932, Page 5
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123PAST DEPRESSIONS King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3401, 2 August 1932, Page 5
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