Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the Present Age. Never Before Printed: With an Appendix Consisting of Original, Explanatory, and Scarce Papers, Том 3T. N. Longman, and L. B. Seeley, in Pater-Noster-Row., 1797 - 410 страници |
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... appeared in the former editions , containing the most injurious reflections on the dead as well as the living ; reflections not warranted in any manner , nor to be accounted for or explained , except upon the amiable motives of envy ...
... appeared in the former editions , containing the most injurious reflections on the dead as well as the living ; reflections not warranted in any manner , nor to be accounted for or explained , except upon the amiable motives of envy ...
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... attempt towards a character of this noble perfon as it ftood in the first edition of this performance , I fhall wholly confine my felf myfelf to fuch alterations and additions as have fince appeared APPENDIX . 45 THE THIRD VOLUME.
... attempt towards a character of this noble perfon as it ftood in the first edition of this performance , I fhall wholly confine my felf myfelf to fuch alterations and additions as have fince appeared APPENDIX . 45 THE THIRD VOLUME.
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... appeared in it . ; In the first place , this Father of Candour has thought fit to ftigmatize fome proceedings in his late Majefty's reign against a certain V. C. of Oxford , as being very oppreffive , and in the fame breath to impute ...
... appeared in it . ; In the first place , this Father of Candour has thought fit to ftigmatize fome proceedings in his late Majefty's reign against a certain V. C. of Oxford , as being very oppreffive , and in the fame breath to impute ...
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... the Bar , upon the Bench , and in Parliament , during the warmest political contests against the ableft fpeakers , recollect the light in which he always always appeared ; his grace , ftrength , and dignity 43 APPENDIX .
... the Bar , upon the Bench , and in Parliament , during the warmest political contests against the ableft fpeakers , recollect the light in which he always always appeared ; his grace , ftrength , and dignity 43 APPENDIX .
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... appeared ; his grace , ftrength , and dignity of manner ; quickness and compre- henfion of thought ; and let them fay if they can , that he had neither imagination , wit , or eloquence ; that he betrayed on any occa- fion a want of the ...
... appeared ; his grace , ftrength , and dignity of manner ; quickness and compre- henfion of thought ; and let them fay if they can , that he had neither imagination , wit , or eloquence ; that he betrayed on any occa- fion a want of the ...
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