Every page of his diary is a register of the symptoms of this unhappy disease.

When the Revolution came, he was absolutely forced, by the iron necessity of the case, after certain perturbations, to go either with Fox or with Burke.

Under this compulsion he took one headlong plunge into the policy of alarm.

Everybody knows how desperately an habitually irresolute man is capable of clinging to a policy or a conviction, to which he has once been driven by dire stress of circumstance.

Windham having at last made up his mind to be frightened by the Revolution, was more violently and inconsolably frightened than anybody else.
Pitt, after he had been forced into war, at least intended it to be a war on the good old-fashioned principles of seizing the enemy's colonies and keeping them.