The early history of Charles James Fox |
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... Speaker's chamber , heard part of the debate , withdrew , and , after hesitating for an hour or two between conscience and five thousand pounds a year , took a manly resolution and rushed into the House just in time to vote . " that ...
... Speaker's chamber , heard part of the debate , withdrew , and , after hesitating for an hour or two between conscience and five thousand pounds a year , took a manly resolution and rushed into the House just in time to vote . " that ...
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... speaker in the House of Commons , he was solemnly forgiven for having married above his station . Charles Fox's mother , if pictures may be trusted , ( and in her day they spoke true , ) must , at each successive stage of life , have ...
... speaker in the House of Commons , he was solemnly forgiven for having married above his station . Charles Fox's mother , if pictures may be trusted , ( and in her day they spoke true , ) must , at each successive stage of life , have ...
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... Speaker's . What can I more than snatch this time to tell you that I am , for me , well , and that I love you dearly ? " Perfect trust and passionate affection breathe through every page of the letters , so close upon each other in date ...
... Speaker's . What can I more than snatch this time to tell you that I am , for me , well , and that I love you dearly ? " Perfect trust and passionate affection breathe through every page of the letters , so close upon each other in date ...
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... speaker . With a sensitiveness of which he was one day to give a tragical proof , the young man started to his feet , descanted in high - flown terms upon Lord Hardwicke's office and character , and denounced the insolence of his assail ...
... speaker . With a sensitiveness of which he was one day to give a tragical proof , the young man started to his feet , descanted in high - flown terms upon Lord Hardwicke's office and character , and denounced the insolence of his assail ...
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... speaker . It was essential for success that a case should be made out plausible enough to afford members a pre- text for voting against the wishes and convictions of the nation . The emergency demanded a leader of undaunted courage and ...
... speaker . It was essential for success that a case should be made out plausible enough to afford members a pre- text for voting against the wishes and convictions of the nation . The emergency demanded a leader of undaunted courage and ...
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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.