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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... present . " So indignant , it may be remarked , was Mrs. Battie at the turn affairs had taken , that , two or three days afterwards , happening to encounter young Morell as he was going into chapel , she gave him , to use his own words ...
... present . " So indignant , it may be remarked , was Mrs. Battie at the turn affairs had taken , that , two or three days afterwards , happening to encounter young Morell as he was going into chapel , she gave him , to use his own words ...
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... present remembered . The profession which Dr. Battie , had he followed his own predilections , would have adopted , was the law . His pecuniary means , however , not being sufficient to enable him to reside in one of the Inns of Court ...
... present remembered . The profession which Dr. Battie , had he followed his own predilections , would have adopted , was the law . His pecuniary means , however , not being sufficient to enable him to reside in one of the Inns of Court ...
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... present himself . A decision , however , of the House of Lords , after a hearing which lasted three days , deprived him of the preferment . " The literary work by which Dr. Chapman seems to have been best known to his contemporaries was ...
... present himself . A decision , however , of the House of Lords , after a hearing which lasted three days , deprived him of the preferment . " The literary work by which Dr. Chapman seems to have been best known to his contemporaries was ...
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... present memoir . Henry Fox , the future political rival of the illustrious Chatham , was born in 1705 , and had probably already become an Eton scholar when , at the age of eleven , he lost his venerable father , who died on the 28th of ...
... present memoir . Henry Fox , the future political rival of the illustrious Chatham , was born in 1705 , and had probably already become an Eton scholar when , at the age of eleven , he lost his venerable father , who died on the 28th of ...
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... and of Henry Edward , a general in the army , colonel of the 10th regiment of foot , and Governor of Portsmouth , who died in 1811 . GILBERT WEST . THE subject of the present memoir affords 56 HENRY FOX , LORD HOLLAND .
... and of Henry Edward , a general in the army , colonel of the 10th regiment of foot , and Governor of Portsmouth , who died in 1811 . GILBERT WEST . THE subject of the present memoir affords 56 HENRY FOX , LORD HOLLAND .
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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.