The Early History of Charles James FoxLongmans, Green, 1911 - 524페이지 |
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... party - Lord Rockingham's ad- ministration - His dismissal - Lord Chatham's Government , and the successive changes in its composition - General election of 1768 - Fox chosen for Midhurst - His political opinions and prejudices - He se ...
... party - Lord Rockingham's ad- ministration - His dismissal - Lord Chatham's Government , and the successive changes in its composition - General election of 1768 - Fox chosen for Midhurst - His political opinions and prejudices - He se ...
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... party was sacrificed without mercy , with all his kindred and dependants ; and those public officers , who were unlucky enough to have nc political connections , fared as ill as the civil population 30 CH . 1 . THE EARLY HISTORY OF.
... party was sacrificed without mercy , with all his kindred and dependants ; and those public officers , who were unlucky enough to have nc political connections , fared as ill as the civil population 30 CH . 1 . THE EARLY HISTORY OF.
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... party . The Whigs , whom he had evicted and insulted ; the Jacobites , who had always regarded his family as a tribe of renegades ; the lawyers , whom he had so often beaten at their own weapons ; his very mercenaries who , now that ...
... party . The Whigs , whom he had evicted and insulted ; the Jacobites , who had always regarded his family as a tribe of renegades ; the lawyers , whom he had so often beaten at their own weapons ; his very mercenaries who , now that ...
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... party warfare . And all this he had apparently done in the wantonness of deliberate , but almost aimless , malice ; without any benefit to himself which could compensate for a tithe of the unpopularity that pursued him into his ...
... party warfare . And all this he had apparently done in the wantonness of deliberate , but almost aimless , malice ; without any benefit to himself which could compensate for a tithe of the unpopularity that pursued him into his ...
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... party . Things were beginning to look serious , when George Grenville's son , who happened luckily to be in the crowd , came to the rescue . " ' Her ladyship was frightened , dismounted , and fled for refuge into Lord Mulgrave's chaise ...
... party . Things were beginning to look serious , when George Grenville's son , who happened luckily to be in the crowd , came to the rescue . " ' Her ladyship was frightened , dismounted , and fled for refuge into Lord Mulgrave's chaise ...
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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.