The Early History of Charles James FoxHarper & Bros., 1880 - 470페이지 |
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... side of his father , who was of substance enough to breed up his son in a liberal education , so it is altogether needless to ransack the Heralds ' Office for the origin and descent of his mother . " 1 Clarendon tells us of Lord Percy ...
... side of his father , who was of substance enough to breed up his son in a liberal education , so it is altogether needless to ransack the Heralds ' Office for the origin and descent of his mother . " 1 Clarendon tells us of Lord Percy ...
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... side in so interesting a controversy . In order to keep on terms with the Duke of Richmond , Pel- ham thought it necessary to speak with grave disapproval of his audacious subordinate , and , during at least a twelvemonth , continued to ...
... side in so interesting a controversy . In order to keep on terms with the Duke of Richmond , Pel- ham thought it necessary to speak with grave disapproval of his audacious subordinate , and , during at least a twelvemonth , continued to ...
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... side by side along the same Treasury bench . Lord Hardwicke was wise enough to remember that an orator whose anger is real cannot safely trust himself to the impulse of the moment . Taking his revenge with discretion , he read in the ...
... side by side along the same Treasury bench . Lord Hardwicke was wise enough to remember that an orator whose anger is real cannot safely trust himself to the impulse of the moment . Taking his revenge with discretion , he read in the ...
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... side of a parliamentary impeachment . The years during which he had been secretary at war were long remembered by army agents and contractors as a golden age of peculation ; and he now saw before him a prospect of secure and almost ...
... side of a parliamentary impeachment . The years during which he had been secretary at war were long remembered by army agents and contractors as a golden age of peculation ; and he now saw before him a prospect of secure and almost ...
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... side of Bencruachan , are portrayed with almost preternatural vividness in Hogg's strange frag- ment of biography , perhaps the most interesting book in our language . that has never been republished . timonial ready to be produced ...
... side of Bencruachan , are portrayed with almost preternatural vividness in Hogg's strange frag- ment of biography , perhaps the most interesting book in our language . that has never been republished . timonial ready to be produced ...
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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...