The early history of Charles James Fox |
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... Feelings of Fox towards France -Madame du Deffand - Fitzpatrick - Mrs . Crewe - Private theatricals -Effect of his stage ... Feeling against him in the country- March of the City upon Westminster - Violent conduct of the majority in the ...
... Feelings of Fox towards France -Madame du Deffand - Fitzpatrick - Mrs . Crewe - Private theatricals -Effect of his stage ... Feeling against him in the country- March of the City upon Westminster - Violent conduct of the majority in the ...
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... feeling of Fox on the question - His earnest efforts against the measure - His senti- ments with regard to women , and his eager care of their rights and interests in Parliament - His private life - The betting - book at Brooks's ...
... feeling of Fox on the question - His earnest efforts against the measure - His senti- ments with regard to women , and his eager care of their rights and interests in Parliament - His private life - The betting - book at Brooks's ...
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... feeling ; and , when Fox had for years been Secretary at War , a Privy Councillor , and the readiest speaker in the House of Commons , he was solemnly forgiven for having married above his station . Charles Fox's mother , if pictures ...
... feeling ; and , when Fox had for years been Secretary at War , a Privy Councillor , and the readiest speaker in the House of Commons , he was solemnly forgiven for having married above his station . Charles Fox's mother , if pictures ...
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... feelings of Charles Yorke , -who , as the son of his father , had already a great business in Chancery , and who was beginning to make his mark in Parliament as a cultured but somewhat affected speaker . With a sensitiveness of which he ...
... feelings of Charles Yorke , -who , as the son of his father , had already a great business in Chancery , and who was beginning to make his mark in Parliament as a cultured but somewhat affected speaker . With a sensitiveness of which he ...
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... feeling that our navy was not to be relied on . For the first time since the Dutch were in the Medway , that humiliating misgiving took firm hold of the public imagination ; and , as an inevitable consequence , came the terrors of a ...
... feeling that our navy was not to be relied on . For the first time since the Dutch were in the Medway , that humiliating misgiving took firm hold of the public imagination ; and , as an inevitable consequence , came the terrors of a ...
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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.