The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: To which is Prefixed, the Life and Character of the Author, Considerably Enlarged, Том 4

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F. C. and J. Rivington, 1814
 

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Страница 457 - I feel of late in myself, and which must increase every day with my age and ill health, make me absolutely despair of acquitting myself as I ought, and would be necessary for his Majesty's service, in a post that requires not only great abilities, but good health, and all the application that can be ; neither of which I can either ways promise either his Majesty or myself.
Страница 299 - ... of Holland, and the general esteem they have of Mackaird being a very quiet and pious man ; but chiefly from the firm persuasion they have of not being obliged to it by any bare letter of his majesty, without any sentence having passed against them, by which they are adjudged rebels and fugitives. And, on the contrary, after a sentence of banishment against Mackaird and Brown, which, they say, is by all writers esteemed wholly to extinguish their subjection, and consequently his .Majesty's right...
Страница 333 - I am told, he lays it upon me, and will never forgive me, which I must bear as well as I can : but yet, because you know how we have formerly lived, I will tell you, that it was not only impossible my Lord Treasurer and he should concur in one thing, but he had likewise lost all the Prince's confidence and opinion since his last journey into Holland. Besides, for my own part, I found these two years past, he could not bear my being so well neither with the Prince nor with the Treasurer : but endeavoured...
Страница 342 - France, at this juncture, was as follows : France, in order to break the force of the confederacy, and elude all...
Страница 365 - States, by which he is obliged to enter into the war and they to continue it and not make peace without much greater conditions, if France does not agree to those the States accepted about a month since by the llth of this month. The Prince would not stir till this treaty was signed, believing all his own interests and the greatest of the Crown of England to depend upon it. After it was done he went away immediately to the army, a great Prince in all others...
Страница 340 - Royal Highness having been so much displeased with some of my late discourses to his Majesty ; though your Lordship could not tell me more of them, than that they were some popular notions : as likewise the great dissatisfaction his Majesty would receive at the difficulties I made to enter into an affair which belonged not at all to my post ; and wherein his Majesty had not done me the honour to acquaint me with the deliberation or digestion of it. I must confess, the...
Страница 22 - Witt's words of fluctuation perpetuelle dans les conseils d' Angleterre, which of all things in the world I am not made for, and would rather break my head with going on, than be wrenching myself continually with sudden turns."* Sir John Temple was as much set against the proposed exaltation of his son in the King's councils, as against his mission in Spain ; and agreed with him in preferring the embassy to Holland,
Страница 333 - I had ever since told them both, I would live well with them both, let them live as ill as they would one with another ; and my VOL.
Страница 332 - ... yet that Temple was an important agent in this momentous business, is sufficiently proved by a letter (dated November, 1677) which he addressed to his father upon the subject, and which is still extant.* * TO SIR JOHN TEMPLE. " 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...
Страница 334 - Paris immediately upon this errand, and bring a positive answer from that court within a time prefixed. I never undertook any journey more unwillingly, knowing in what opinion I...

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