The Early History of Charles James FoxHarper & Bros., 1880 - 470페이지 |
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... 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 . " scribed by Grammont , in terms which read oddly as CHAP . I. ] 5 CHARLES JAMES FOX .
... 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 . " scribed by Grammont , in terms which read oddly as CHAP . I. ] 5 CHARLES JAMES FOX .
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... hour and a half , while he fought his battles over again in a speech of which one fragment fortunately re- mains to us as a sample of the source whence the prince of all debaters inherited his unrivalled facility . Fox was insisting ...
... hour and a half , while he fought his battles over again in a speech of which one fragment fortunately re- mains to us as a sample of the source whence the prince of all debaters inherited his unrivalled facility . Fox was insisting ...
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... hour , " wrote Carlyle , " is great ; and the honorable gentlemen , I must say , are small ; " but they had among them one who was equal to the hour . " Your country , " said Frederic to our envoy at Berlin , " has been long in labor ...
... hour , " wrote Carlyle , " is great ; and the honorable gentlemen , I must say , are small ; " but they had among them one who was equal to the hour . " Your country , " said Frederic to our envoy at Berlin , " has been long in labor ...
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... hour long , bristling with figures and quotations . When he thought fit to break silence , every phrase had the weight of a despot's edict . One fiery sentence carried the Prussian subsidy . An- other made the House of Commons forget ...
... hour long , bristling with figures and quotations . When he thought fit to break silence , every phrase had the weight of a despot's edict . One fiery sentence carried the Prussian subsidy . An- other made the House of Commons forget ...
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... hours of the House of Com- mons , was very unwilling to incur trouble and unpopularity in defence of a minister whom he ... hour . " Sir Francis Dashwood is justly described by Wilkes as one who , " from puzzling all his life at tavern ...
... hours of the House of Com- mons , was very unwilling to incur trouble and unpopularity in defence of a minister whom he ... hour . " Sir Francis Dashwood is justly described by Wilkes as one who , " from puzzling all his life at tavern ...
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241 페이지 - February, 1769, was ordered to be expunged from the journals as " subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom.
135 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.
84 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.
238 페이지 - David, madam," said the doctor, " looks much older than he is ; for his face has had double the business of any other man's; it is never at rest; when he speaks one minute, he has quite a different countenance to what he assumes the next; I don't believe he ever kept the same look for half an hour together...
154 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.
46 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...
265 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.
321 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.
273 페이지 - Our opinions, our fashions, even our games, were adopted in France, a ray of national glory illuminated each individual, and every Englishman was supposed to be born a patriot and a philosopher.
322 페이지 - Here comes Bosola, The only court-gall ; yet I observe his railing Is not for simple love of piety: Indeed, he rails at those things which he wants...