The early history of Charles James Fox |
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... March - Brooks's Club- Gaming - Extravagance - Drinking and gout - George the Third's temperate and hardy habits - State of religion among the upper classes -Political life in 1768 - Sinecures - Pensions and places , English , Irish ...
... March - Brooks's Club- Gaming - Extravagance - Drinking and gout - George the Third's temperate and hardy habits - State of religion among the upper classes -Political life in 1768 - Sinecures - Pensions and places , English , Irish ...
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... March of the City upon Westminster - Violent conduct of the majority in the House - Wedderburn's defection from the Opposition -- Popular excitement outside Parliament - Fox and North maltreated - The Lord Mayor and the Alderman ...
... March of the City upon Westminster - Violent conduct of the majority in the House - Wedderburn's defection from the Opposition -- Popular excitement outside Parliament - Fox and North maltreated - The Lord Mayor and the Alderman ...
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... March 1754 Pelham died suddenly , and the inheritance of Sir Robert Walpole was open to any one who had the strength to seize and to hold it.1 The Duke of Newcastle succeeded to his brother's place at the Treasury ; but everybody was ...
... March 1754 Pelham died suddenly , and the inheritance of Sir Robert Walpole was open to any one who had the strength to seize and to hold it.1 The Duke of Newcastle succeeded to his brother's place at the Treasury ; but everybody was ...
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... March 1763 , Fox writes ; " I have said nothing of Charles Townshend . He must be left to that worst enemy , himself ; care only being taken that no agreeableness , no wit , no zealous and clever behaviour , ever betray you into ...
... March 1763 , Fox writes ; " I have said nothing of Charles Townshend . He must be left to that worst enemy , himself ; care only being taken that no agreeableness , no wit , no zealous and clever behaviour , ever betray you into ...
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... March 1752 , " send me word by the bearer how my dear Charles does . Send John Walker to- morrow morning with another account , for I propose shooting , and not being in till three or four . I can do nothing in the anxiety of not ...
... March 1752 , " send me word by the bearer how my dear Charles does . Send John Walker to- morrow morning with another account , for I propose shooting , and not being in till three or four . I can do nothing in the anxiety of not ...
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82 페이지 - I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit, and a distant bill. Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.
148 페이지 - because all the world in concert could not have kept him in the background, and because when once in the front he played his part with a prompt intrepidity and a commanding ease that were but the outward symptoms of the immense reserves of energy, on which it was in his power to draw.
348 페이지 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
53 페이지 - I did not cry I assure you which I believe you will, as I know you were more set upon it than I was, the thing I am most angry at is looking so like a fool...
26 페이지 - I sincerely wish your lordship joy of being delivered of a most impracticable colleague, his Majesty of a most imperious servant, and the country of a most dangerous minister.
169 페이지 - Animated by the favour of the people on one side, and heated by persecution on the other, his views and sentiments changed with his situation. Hardly serious at first, he is now an enthusiast. The coldest bodies warm with opposition, the hardest sparkle in collision. There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves. The passions are engaged, and create a...
288 페이지 - And listen'd for the queen of all the quire; Fain would I hear her heavenly voice to sing; And wanted yet an omen to the spring.
248 페이지 - That the king can do no wrong, is admitted without reluctance. We separate the amiable, good-natured prince from the folly and treachery of his servants, and the private virtues of the man from the vices of his government. Were it not for this just distinction, I know not whether your majesty's condition, or that of the English nation, would deserve most to be lamented. I would prepare your mind for a favourable reception of truth, by removing every painful offensive idea of personal reproach.
86 페이지 - The young men of the age lose five, ten, fifteen thousand pounds in an evening there. Lord Stavordale, not one-and-twenty, lost eleven thousand there last Tuesday, but recovered it by one great hand at hazard : he swore a great oath, — " Now, if I had been playing deep, I might have won millions.