The Early History of Charles James FoxLongmans, Green, 1911 - 524페이지 |
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... affectionate forebodings , which can still be read in his own boyish hand- writing . Stephen became in course of time Earl of Ilchester , and the founder of a house which has steadily grown in prosperity and general esteem . Henry Fox ...
... affectionate forebodings , which can still be read in his own boyish hand- writing . Stephen became in course of time Earl of Ilchester , and the founder of a house which has steadily grown in prosperity and general esteem . Henry Fox ...
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... affection breathe through every page of the letters , so close upon each other in date and so ungrudging in length , in which Henry Fox's easy , kindly , and humorous words " Lie disordered in the paper , just As hearty nature speaks ...
... affection breathe through every page of the letters , so close upon each other in date and so ungrudging in length , in which Henry Fox's easy , kindly , and humorous words " Lie disordered in the paper , just As hearty nature speaks ...
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... affection with which the City continued to regard the man who had made it the first capital in the world , seemed equally criminal and contemptible in the eyes of those who , for England's sins , were now her masters . Rigby , who had ...
... affection with which the City continued to regard the man who had made it the first capital in the world , seemed equally criminal and contemptible in the eyes of those who , for England's sins , were now her masters . Rigby , who had ...
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... affection ; for this political buccaneer , whose hand had been against every man and in every corner of the national till , was in private a warm - hearted and faithful friend . Lord Holland cannot be called nice in the choice of some ...
... affection ; for this political buccaneer , whose hand had been against every man and in every corner of the national till , was in private a warm - hearted and faithful friend . Lord Holland cannot be called nice in the choice of some ...
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... That home presented a beautiful picture of undoubting and undoubted affection ; of perfect similarity in tastes and pursuits ; of mutual appreciation , which thorough knowledge of the world 40 CH . II . THE EARLY HISTORY OF.
... That home presented a beautiful picture of undoubting and undoubted affection ; of perfect similarity in tastes and pursuits ; of mutual appreciation , which thorough knowledge of the world 40 CH . II . THE EARLY HISTORY OF.
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admirable Bedfords bench bill borough brother Burke Bute Cabinet called character Charles Fox Chatham Court Crown debate Duke of Grafton Earl election England English father favour favourite feeling Fox's friends gentleman George Grenville George Selwyn George the Third Government Grenville guineas hand honour hope Horace Walpole House of Commons hundred Junius King King's knew Lady less letter liberty lived London Lord Bute Lord Holland Lord Mayor Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne Majesty matter ment Middlesex mind Ministry nation never once orator Parliament parliamentary party patriotism peer petition Pitt political Prime Minister question Rigby royal Sandwich Shelburne Sir James Lowther soon speak Speaker speech spirit statesman Stephen Fox thought thousand pounds tion told took Townshend Treasury turned vote Wedderburn Whig Wilkes words writes wrote young
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278 페이지 - That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
80 페이지 - The truth is, that, though I gave up the business early, I had a tinge of dandyism * in my minority, and probably retained enough of it to conciliate the great ones at five-and- twenty.
93 페이지 - My health advances faster than my amusement. However, I have been at one opera, Mr. Wesley's. They have boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes; but indeed so long, that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them.
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.
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.
51 페이지 - This is not describing her, for her great beauty was a peculiarity of countenance that made her at the same time different from and prettier than any other girl I ever saw.
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.
366 페이지 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
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.
145 페이지 - I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity. Of Mr. Boswell's truth I have not the least suspicion, because I am sure he could invent nothing of this kind.