Three English Statesmen: A Course of Lectures on the Political History of EnglandMacmillan, 1867 - 328 էջ |
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Էջ 155
... Lord Stanhope - to whose most valuable biography , which forms the foundation of this lecture , let me here acknowledge my great obligations - Lord Stanhope says that Pitt was only once seen drunk . There are traditions of a different ...
... Lord Stanhope - to whose most valuable biography , which forms the foundation of this lecture , let me here acknowledge my great obligations - Lord Stanhope says that Pitt was only once seen drunk . There are traditions of a different ...
Էջ 167
... Lord Stanhope is inclined to think that Lord Temple having saved the monarchy by a back - stairs intrigue , wished to assure its salvation by getting himself made a Duke ; and that the King , faithful to first principles , even in this ...
... Lord Stanhope is inclined to think that Lord Temple having saved the monarchy by a back - stairs intrigue , wished to assure its salvation by getting himself made a Duke ; and that the King , faithful to first principles , even in this ...
Էջ 168
... Lord Stanhope , Pitt at all events stands clear . His conduct was excusable perhaps ; but if the transaction was criminal , he was not guiltless . He was an accomplice after the fact . He screened Lord Temple in parliament . He accepted ...
... Lord Stanhope , Pitt at all events stands clear . His conduct was excusable perhaps ; but if the transaction was criminal , he was not guiltless . He was an accomplice after the fact . He screened Lord Temple in parliament . He accepted ...
Էջ 190
... Lord Stanhope , after giving an account of the accession of the Duke of Portland and his friends to Pitt's govern- ment- " beside these appointments , two or three peerages , and two or three places of less amount , gratified some less ...
... Lord Stanhope , after giving an account of the accession of the Duke of Portland and his friends to Pitt's govern- ment- " beside these appointments , two or three peerages , and two or three places of less amount , gratified some less ...
Էջ 191
... Lord Stanhope , " the King showed his entire approval of his minister by the grant - perhaps a little lavish - of seven new peerages . The others were to baronies ; but one , Sir James Lowther , whose influence at Appleby had not been ...
... Lord Stanhope , " the King showed his entire approval of his minister by the grant - perhaps a little lavish - of seven new peerages . The others were to baronies ; but one , Sir James Lowther , whose influence at Appleby had not been ...
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Էջ 245 - the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
Էջ 238 - We must not count with certainty on a continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval ; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation of Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace, than we may at the present moment.
Էջ 70 - Cant, Cloth-worship, or whatever ugly name it have, has gone about incurably sick ever since ; and is now at length, in these generations, very rapidly dying.
Էջ 71 - That it was our duty, if ever the Lord brought us back again in peace, to call Charles Stuart, that man of blood, to an account for that blood he had shed, and mischief he had done to his utmost, against the Lord's Cause and People in these poor Nations.
Էջ 281 - The conversation of the principal persons of the country all tends to encourage this system of blood ; and the conversation even at my table, where you will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, &C., and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company.
Էջ 28 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government against law...
Էջ 271 - If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were to be sought for, it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolished.
Էջ 319 - He had a brave regiment of his countrymen, most of them freeholders and freeholders' sons, and who upon matter of conscience engaged in this quarrel ; and thus being well armed within by the satisfaction of their own consciences, and without by good iron arms, they would, as one man, stand firmly and charge desperately.
Էջ 8 - Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died.
Էջ 111 - I am confident that it came so into your hands ; and was not judged by you to be from counterfeited or feigned Necessity, but by Divine Providence and Dispensation. And this I speak with more earnestness, because I speak for God and not for men.