Junius, Lord Chatham: A Biography, Setting Forth the Condition of English Politics Preceding and Contemporary with the Revolutionary Junian Period, and Showing the the Greatest Orator and Statesman was Also the Greatest Epistolary Writer of His AgeTrübner & Company, 1857 - 252 страници An attempt to identify Junius with William Pitt, earl of Chatham. |
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... course of contraries , described by Lafontaine , the investigator finds himself in an untrodden way ; and the Miscellaneous Series , rejected by other theorists , leads him , against the current of appearances , in the direction of the ...
... course of contraries , described by Lafontaine , the investigator finds himself in an untrodden way ; and the Miscellaneous Series , rejected by other theorists , leads him , against the current of appearances , in the direction of the ...
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... course of aggression by a curiously indirect , but sufficiently expressive , attack on the two men who most conspicuously and steadily advocated the opinions which we know he entertained on the chief questions of that period ; when he ...
... course of aggression by a curiously indirect , but sufficiently expressive , attack on the two men who most conspicuously and steadily advocated the opinions which we know he entertained on the chief questions of that period ; when he ...
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... course , vague , and of little positive value ; but inquirers into the matter should pay particular attention to everything that concerns Lord Chatham , and mark , furthermore , how often his claims , so to express it , seem to be ...
... course , vague , and of little positive value ; but inquirers into the matter should pay particular attention to everything that concerns Lord Chatham , and mark , furthermore , how often his claims , so to express it , seem to be ...
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... course , meant , he is not to be traced in these alone ; for they must be considered in every investigation of the subject . He advised a careful and patient search for internal evidence , such as he had proposed to himself in all the ...
... course , meant , he is not to be traced in these alone ; for they must be considered in every investigation of the subject . He advised a careful and patient search for internal evidence , such as he had proposed to himself in all the ...
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... course of life , as it resembled his own in some respects , perhaps gave it its first directing im- pulse . The earliest known speech of Pitt was a good deal in that equivocating vein , discoverable in many parts of his future biography ...
... course of life , as it resembled his own in some respects , perhaps gave it its first directing im- pulse . The earliest known speech of Pitt was a good deal in that equivocating vein , discoverable in many parts of his future biography ...
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Страница 96 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Страница 194 - ... uncontrolled, unpunished, through the land? The myrmidons of the court have been long, and are still, pursuing him in vain. They will not spend their time upon me or you, or you.
Страница 194 - But while I expected from this daring flight his final ruin and fall, behold him rising still higher, and coming down souse upon both houses of parliament. Yes, he did make you his quarry, and you still bleed from the wounds of his talons. You crouched, and still crouch beneath his rage.