Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain: Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions,Harding and Lepard., 1835 |
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Страница 9 - I have had time enough to reflect sufficiently upon our present state, especially since I came hither. But whatever way I turn my thoughts, I find insuperable difficulties. Pray do not think it an effect of melancholy, for that was never my greatest fault, when I tell you that in these three weeks' retirement in this place I have not only looked back, but forward ; and the more I consider our present circumstances, I think them still the more desperate, unless some unforeseen accident fall out which...
Страница 8 - He amused them with jokes ; he flattered them with his know* ledge of their genealogies ; he animated them by a recital of the deeds of their ancestors, and of the verses of their bards. It was one of his maxims that no General should fight with an irregular army, unless he was acquainted with every man he commanded. Yet, with these habits of familiarity, the severity of his discipline was dreadful : the only punishment he inflicted was death. All other punishments...
Страница 7 - She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and tho' low of stature pretily shaped, languishing and excellent eyes, her teeth wronging her mouth by sticking a little too far out ; for the rest lovely enough.
Страница 9 - Judge then what we are to expect, in case we should venture upon any such attempt at this time. It is to me a vain argument, that our enemies are scarce yet well settled, when you consider that fear in some, and ambition in others, have brought them to comply ; and that the Parliament being made up for the most part of Members that formerly run our...
Страница 6 - Why, it was the justest and bravest action that ever was done in England, or anywhere else;' with other words to the same effect. It is said also that, you having heard of a design to seize upon you, or to cause you to be taken prisoner, you took notice of it to the King of Denmark himself, and said, ' I hear there is a design to seize upon me ; but who is it that hath that design ? JSst ce notre bandit ? ' by which you are understood to mean the king.
Страница 8 - I took notice to you of the report, and when you considered how totally I was a stranger to the persons mentioned, to either of whom I never spake word, or received message from either in my life. And this I protest to your Majesty is true, as I have hope in heaven...
Страница 9 - I'll run the hazard of being thought any thing rather than a rash inconsiderate man ; and, to tell you my thoughts without disguise, I am now so much in love with a retired life that I am never like to be fond of making a bustle in the world again.
Страница 7 - ... confirmed me in my resolutions not to return. To conclude, the tide is not to be diverted, nor the oppressed delivered ; but God, in his time, will have mercy on his people. He will save and defend them, and avenge the blood of those who shall now perish, upon the heaps of those, who in their pride think nothing is able to oppose them.
Страница 5 - ... that condemned the late king. And when I thought there was no other exception to you, than your being of the other party, I spoke to the general...