The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes Octavo. : To which is Prefixed, The Life and Character of the Author, Том 4J. Clarke, T. Wotton, D. Brown, H. Lintot ... [and 13 others], 1757 |
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Страница 330 - ... the Prince of Orange married here; not only from your good wishes to him, but from your apprehensions of some greater matches that might befall us, and with consequences ill enough to posterity, as well as to the present age. I am in a good deal of haste at this present time, and therefore shall sum up a great deal in a little room. " The Prince of Orange came to the King at Newmarket, where he was mighty well received, both of King and Duke. I made the acquaintance there between the Prince and...
Страница 84 - swore in a rage , that be could not bear this language from „ my lord Arlington , nor live any longer with him as he had
Страница 323 - tis well for me, that our Work here requires little Skill, and that we have no more but Forms to deal with in this Congrefs, while the Treaty is truly in the Field, where the Conditions of it are yet to be determined. Fata...
Страница 330 - The day after he saw her here, he moved it to the King and Duke ; and though he did it with so good a grace that it was very well received, yet, in four or five days treaty, it proved to be entangled in such difficulties, that the Prince sent for me one night, and uttering his whole heart, told me, he was resolved to give it over, repenting him from the heart of his journey, and would be gone within two days, and trust God Almighty with what would follow ; and so went to bed the most melancholy that...
Страница 25 - Angkterre; which of all things in the world I am not made for, and had rather, once for all, break my head with going on, than be wrenching myself continually with sudden turns.
Страница 317 - ... expected a very ill beginning of the campaign, and to make an ill figure in it himfelf; at leaft, till the Germans took the field: but he was in, and muft go through with it -, and the beft was, that few campaigns end as they begin...
Страница 31 - The point upon which I judge this to turn chiefly, is that of religion, in which I find him, by his discourses, very warm ; and hear by others that he hath it very much at heart.
Страница 119 - Health that cou'd be, and that you looked as if you would keep it fo, if you did not grow too kind to the Place and Company, you lived in, or they to you. Yet after what you tell me of the French Air and Bourbon Waters, I am much apter to wifh myfelf there, than you jk thefe Parts of the World j and tho...
Страница 86 - ... the interloper is an intruder with the further design of benefiting himself by the intrusion, which he seeks to establish for a continuance ; while the intruder may possibly offend only once or momentarily. " They see plainly, whatever privileges are allowed your company at Dort will be given by the other towns, either openly or covertly, to all those interlopers who bring their woollen manufacture directly thither.
Страница 330 - SIR, " London, Nov. — , 1677. " Though I do not trouble you often with public news or business, yet I am sensible of having too much neglected it of late, considering what has passed; which I know you will be more pleased with, than any you have been entertained with a great while : for I remember how often, and how much, you have desired to see the Prince of Orange married here ; not only from your good wishes to him, but from your apprehensions of some greater matches that might befall us, and...