The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Հատոր 4George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton & Company, 1863 |
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... formed to withdraw himself as much as possible from public life . Ultimately he withdrew from the metropolis , and settled in his native county as a provincial counsel ; but soon after his taking this step , he was raised to the king's ...
... formed to withdraw himself as much as possible from public life . Ultimately he withdrew from the metropolis , and settled in his native county as a provincial counsel ; but soon after his taking this step , he was raised to the king's ...
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... formed of his talents and disposition in this line , by those who were the means of pushing him into so respectable a situation . His lordship did not dis- appoint them ; he surpassed even their highest and most sanguine ex- pectations ...
... formed of his talents and disposition in this line , by those who were the means of pushing him into so respectable a situation . His lordship did not dis- appoint them ; he surpassed even their highest and most sanguine ex- pectations ...
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... formed a design of attacking an advanced party of Spaniards in a town on the frontiers , called Va lencia d'Alcantara , where he heard they had amassed considerable ma- gazines . The conduct of this enterprise was committed to Brigadier ...
... formed a design of attacking an advanced party of Spaniards in a town on the frontiers , called Va lencia d'Alcantara , where he heard they had amassed considerable ma- gazines . The conduct of this enterprise was committed to Brigadier ...
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... formed under the auspices of the marquess of Rockingham , constituted first lord of the treasury . Lord Camden was appointed lord - president of the council . In May , 1786 , his majesty , in consideration of Lord Camden's long and ...
... formed under the auspices of the marquess of Rockingham , constituted first lord of the treasury . Lord Camden was appointed lord - president of the council . In May , 1786 , his majesty , in consideration of Lord Camden's long and ...
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... formed the plan of stripping Louis XV . of that extensive province . To this he was incited by other motives , dictated by the interests of com- merce ; for the trading in peltry would then be monopolized by Great Britain , the Northern ...
... formed the plan of stripping Louis XV . of that extensive province . To this he was incited by other motives , dictated by the interests of com- merce ; for the trading in peltry would then be monopolized by Great Britain , the Northern ...
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Էջ 174 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Էջ 192 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
Էջ 294 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Էջ 296 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Էջ 305 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — "The gloomy night is gathering fast,
Էջ 196 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, Churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I.
Էջ 178 - But Johnson informed me that he had made the bargain for Goldsmith, and the price was sixty pounds. "And, Sir," said he, "a sufficient price too, when it was sold; for then the fame of Goldsmith had not been elevated, as it afterwards was, by his 'Traveller...
Էջ 289 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
Էջ 289 - English artists are most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity, derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend upon it from a higher sphere.
Էջ 310 - I have already more than once had occasion to refer to, has often told me that he was seldom more grieved, than when riding into Dumfries one fine summer evening about this rime to attend a county ball, he saw Burns walking alone, on the shady side of the principal street of the town, while the opposite side was gay with successive groups of gentlemen and ladies, all drawn together for the festivities of the night, not one of whom appeared willing to recognise him.