The Early History of Charles James FoxHarper & Brothers, 1880 - 470페이지 |
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... never expected . ' To the end of his life , Fox made Sir Robert's quarrels his own . He could not forgive Lord Hard- wicke for deserting their common chief , as the great chancel- lor in after - years had ample reason to know . " Mr ...
... never expected . ' To the end of his life , Fox made Sir Robert's quarrels his own . He could not forgive Lord Hard- wicke for deserting their common chief , as the great chancel- lor in after - years had ample reason to know . " Mr ...
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... never consent to be asked for three Sundays running in the parish church . Charles Townshend delighted the House , never very critical of a new argument , by a pathetic appeal on behalf of younger sons , whom Lord Hardwicke's bill would ...
... never consent to be asked for three Sundays running in the parish church . Charles Townshend delighted the House , never very critical of a new argument , by a pathetic appeal on behalf of younger sons , whom Lord Hardwicke's bill would ...
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... never weary of squabbling . Scared by the first mutter of the storm , Newcastle ran whimpering to Granville , and When the invasion was first talked of , the Duke of Cumberland was told that the people wished to see him at the head of ...
... never weary of squabbling . Scared by the first mutter of the storm , Newcastle ran whimpering to Granville , and When the invasion was first talked of , the Duke of Cumberland was told that the people wished to see him at the head of ...
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... never potent except when dipped in gall ; ' and to be sung by the Whiteheads was a more serious calam- ity than to be libelled by Wilkes . In default of the praise of writers whose praise was worth having , it was something to be made ...
... never potent except when dipped in gall ; ' and to be sung by the Whiteheads was a more serious calam- ity than to be libelled by Wilkes . In default of the praise of writers whose praise was worth having , it was something to be made ...
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... never possessed . His only object now was to withdraw from his uneasy pre- eminence , and to carry into his retreat as much booty as he could contrive to pack . Loaded with sinecures and reversions for himself and his children , he was ...
... never possessed . His only object now was to withdraw from his uneasy pre- eminence , and to carry into his retreat as much booty as he could contrive to pack . Loaded with sinecures and reversions for himself and his children , he was ...
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137 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.
143 페이지 - ... the general odium. The prerogative of the Crown is to exert the constitutional powers entrusted to it in a way, not of blind favour and partiality, but of wisdom and judgment. This is the spirit of our constitution. The people too have their prerogative, and I hope the fine words of Dryden will be engraven on our hearts — " Freedom is the English subject's prerogative.
76 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.
86 페이지 - 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.
156 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.
267 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.
426 페이지 - ... such a town as Lynn, dining with above two hundred of them amid bumpers, huzzas, songs, and tobacco, and finishing with country dancing at a ball and sixpenny whisk ! I have borne it all cheerfully ; nay, have sat hours in conversation, the thing upon earth that I hate ; have been to hear misses play on the harpsichord, and to see an alderman's copies of Rubens and Carlo Marat. Yet to do the folks justice, they are sensible, and reasonable, and civilized ; their very language is polished since...
323 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.
84 페이지 - This brought the man to himself. When the King came up to me, he asked why I did not come to town before. I said, I understood there was no business going forward in the House in which I could be of service to His Majesty. He replied, he supposed the severe storm of snow would have brought me up. I replied : ' I was under cover of a very warm house.' You see, by all this, how unfit I am for Courts.
80 페이지 - There will be no bankruptcy without we are both ruined at the same time. — How can you think, my dear George, and I hope you do not think, that anybody, or anything, can make a tracasserie between you and me? I take it ill that you even talk of it, which you do in the letter I had by Ligonier.