The Early History of Charles James FoxHarper & Bros., 1880 - 470페이지 |
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... nature is told about him in his biography , and probably very little else was known to its author , as may be gathered from the fact that , of the hundred and forty - nine pages which the book contains , no less than sixty - seven are ...
... nature is told about him in his biography , and probably very little else was known to its author , as may be gathered from the fact that , of the hundred and forty - nine pages which the book contains , no less than sixty - seven are ...
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... nature was over , and that tenderness had carried the day . The birth of a son , whom the duke candidly admits to be an " innocent child , " contrib- uted not a little to this change of feeling ; and , when Fox had for years been ...
... nature was over , and that tenderness had carried the day . The birth of a son , whom the duke candidly admits to be an " innocent child , " contrib- uted not a little to this change of feeling ; and , when Fox had for years been ...
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... nature speaks them . " Fox has left on the history of his times a testimony to his conjugal regard which is highly characteristic of the man . In the reign of George the Second the scandal of the old mar- riage laws had come to a head ...
... nature speaks them . " Fox has left on the history of his times a testimony to his conjugal regard which is highly characteristic of the man . In the reign of George the Second the scandal of the old mar- riage laws had come to a head ...
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... nature which responded to such exhortations , and , at a crisis when the English secretary of state might have been more powerful than the King of France and as celebrated as Frederic of Prussia , he could think of no bolder course than ...
... nature which responded to such exhortations , and , at a crisis when the English secretary of state might have been more powerful than the King of France and as celebrated as Frederic of Prussia , he could think of no bolder course than ...
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... nature and least admirable in human affairs . No cupidity was left untempted , no fear or foible unplayed on , no stone un- turned beneath which one of the creeping things of politics . might chance to be lying . Every office - holder ...
... nature and least admirable in human affairs . No cupidity was left untempted , no fear or foible unplayed on , no stone un- turned beneath which one of the creeping things of politics . might chance to be lying . Every office - holder ...
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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...