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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... schoolfellow Weston , chose the service of the State as his profession ; at the same time , however , enter- ing himself as a student at Lincoln's Inn . His first employment was in the office of his father , then Secretary of State ...
... schoolfellow Weston , chose the service of the State as his profession ; at the same time , however , enter- ing himself as a student at Lincoln's Inn . His first employment was in the office of his father , then Secretary of State ...
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... schoolfellow's head , she boldly taxed the Doctor , if not with injustice , at least with favouritism . In the mean time , the two young men , following the example set them by their mothers , had contracted a feud of their own . It ...
... schoolfellow's head , she boldly taxed the Doctor , if not with injustice , at least with favouritism . In the mean time , the two young men , following the example set them by their mothers , had contracted a feud of their own . It ...
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... schoolfellow Morell , he supplied the words . As Reader to the Temple he also acquired the friendship of Dr. Sherlock , Bishop of London , by whom his talents and sterling virtues were so entirely appreciated that , in 1744 , he ...
... schoolfellow Morell , he supplied the words . As Reader to the Temple he also acquired the friendship of Dr. Sherlock , Bishop of London , by whom his talents and sterling virtues were so entirely appreciated that , in 1744 , he ...
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... schoolfellows Battie and Broughton also first saw the light . In 1723 , he was transferred to King's College , whither he was followed the same year by two other gifted schoolfellows , John Ewer , afterwards successively Bishop of ...
... schoolfellows Battie and Broughton also first saw the light . In 1723 , he was transferred to King's College , whither he was followed the same year by two other gifted schoolfellows , John Ewer , afterwards successively Bishop of ...
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... 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 : " Such are the nights that I have seen of yore ; Such are the nights ...
... 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 : " Such are the nights that I have seen of yore ; Such are the nights ...
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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.