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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... former as dancing in a grand ballet ( Fig . 20 , Plate 1 , in the Analysis of Beauty ' ) , and the scholar as a cynic philosopher . The latter likeness is said to be admirable . The now veteran scholar had , in his more hopeful days ...
... former as dancing in a grand ballet ( Fig . 20 , Plate 1 , in the Analysis of Beauty ' ) , and the scholar as a cynic philosopher . The latter likeness is said to be admirable . The now veteran scholar had , in his more hopeful days ...
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... former companions , and by no one seemingly more than by his old Eton schoolfellow , Sir Charles Hanbury Williams , who thus pleasingly recalls the happy batchelor evenings he had been accustomed to pass in the society of his friend ...
... former companions , and by no one seemingly more than by his old Eton schoolfellow , Sir Charles Hanbury Williams , who thus pleasingly recalls the happy batchelor evenings he had been accustomed to pass in the society of his friend ...
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... former post of Secretary of State , it was stipulated by him that , as the price of his undertaking the leadership of the House of Commons - a charge , by - the - by , which Grenville , with no very good grace , resigned into ...
... former post of Secretary of State , it was stipulated by him that , as the price of his undertaking the leadership of the House of Commons - a charge , by - the - by , which Grenville , with no very good grace , resigned into ...
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... former , " is weak and languid , like his pulse , but at times appears to recover itself , and to be quiet and strong . His speech and memory are impaired , but I think his apprehension is perfect . Poor Lady Holland is a good deal ...
... former , " is weak and languid , like his pulse , but at times appears to recover itself , and to be quiet and strong . His speech and memory are impaired , but I think his apprehension is perfect . Poor Lady Holland is a good deal ...
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... former days . " If Mr. Selwyn calls again , " he said , " show him up ; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead he would like to see me . " Lord Holland died at Holland House , Kensington , on the 1st of July ...
... former days . " If Mr. Selwyn calls again , " he said , " show him up ; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead he would like to see me . " Lord Holland died at Holland House , Kensington , on the 1st of July ...
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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.