Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians: Including Henry Fielding. The Earl of Chatham. Horne Tooke. Horace Walpole. George Grenville. Thomas Gray. George Selwyn. Lord North. Earl of Bute. Earl Temple. Etc, Հատոր 1R. Bentley and Son, 1875 - 354 էջ |
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... College 33 HENRY FOX , LORD HOLLAND . 34 GILBERT WEST 57 HENRY FIELDING . RICHARD MOUNTENEY RALPH THICKNESSE WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS , K.B .. 62 89 92 96 164 GEORGE LORD LYTTELTON . 176 THE REVEREND ...
... College 33 HENRY FOX , LORD HOLLAND . 34 GILBERT WEST 57 HENRY FIELDING . RICHARD MOUNTENEY RALPH THICKNESSE WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS , K.B .. 62 89 92 96 164 GEORGE LORD LYTTELTON . 176 THE REVEREND ...
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... Pitt . " Fox , " writes Horace Walpole , " always spoke to the ques- tion , Pitt to the passions ; Fox to carry the question , Pitt to raise himself ; Fox pointed out , Pitt lashed the errors of his antagonists ; Pitt's talents were ...
... Pitt . " Fox , " writes Horace Walpole , " always spoke to the ques- tion , Pitt to the passions ; Fox to carry the question , Pitt to raise himself ; Fox pointed out , Pitt lashed the errors of his antagonists ; Pitt's talents were ...
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... Pitt to power as Secretary of State and virtually as first Minister , it was a crisis when the military honour of this country had been reduced almost to the lowest state of degradation During the war which was then being waged with ...
... Pitt to power as Secretary of State and virtually as first Minister , it was a crisis when the military honour of this country had been reduced almost to the lowest state of degradation During the war which was then being waged with ...
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... Pitt was ill - too ill to appear in his place and op- pose a measure which , it is almost needless to say , he entirely deprecated ; and thus the victory of the Ministers was complete . Fox of course claimed the peerage which had been ...
... Pitt was ill - too ill to appear in his place and op- pose a measure which , it is almost needless to say , he entirely deprecated ; and thus the victory of the Ministers was complete . Fox of course claimed the peerage which had been ...
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... Pitt , delighting to enjoy , in exchange for the noise and smoke of London and the tumult of the House of Commons ... Pitt at Wickham was still known as Mr. Pitt's walk . Another distinguished Eton contemporary and friend , who ...
... Pitt , delighting to enjoy , in exchange for the noise and smoke of London and the tumult of the House of Commons ... Pitt at Wickham was still known as Mr. Pitt's walk . Another distinguished Eton contemporary and friend , who ...
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Էջ 85 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Էջ 263 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Էջ 85 - Charlotte, shall from her sympathetic breast send forth the heaving sigh. Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by a solemn assurance, that, when the little parlour, in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read, with honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Էջ 140 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Էջ 197 - you shall be my confessor: when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christiau religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Էջ 83 - Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at and concerned for his continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had had the advantage of a liberal education, and of being admitted into good company...
Էջ 88 - On this day, the most melancholy sun I had ever beheld arose, and found me awake at my house at Fordhook. By the light of this sun, I was, in my own opinion, last to behold and take leave of some of those creatures on whom I doated with a mother-like fondness, guided by nature and passion, and uncured and unhardened by all the doctrine of that philosophical school where I had learned to bear pains and to despise death.
Էջ 315 - I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages; to enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition; a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour...
Էջ 163 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me ; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy.