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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... nature of the strate- gy . Lord Chatham is curiously abused by Junius in the very opening of the epistolary war ; and this suggests the mode of dealing with the whole cunning system of con- cealment . Suivez le fil de la rivière . Un ...
... nature of the strate- gy . Lord Chatham is curiously abused by Junius in the very opening of the epistolary war ; and this suggests the mode of dealing with the whole cunning system of con- cealment . Suivez le fil de la rivière . Un ...
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... nature of the men and things about him . He knew that , for all his efforts to achieve the glory and good of England , there were thousands , and those among the highest in the realm , who would repay him by pulling him down and driving ...
... nature of the men and things about him . He knew that , for all his efforts to achieve the glory and good of England , there were thousands , and those among the highest in the realm , who would repay him by pulling him down and driving ...
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... nature of the writer , and remind one of his sarcastic House of Commons displays ; while that bold assumption , that the king himself is his enemy , together with the threat of throwing down his load in some possible terrivy and leaving ...
... nature of the writer , and remind one of his sarcastic House of Commons displays ; while that bold assumption , that the king himself is his enemy , together with the threat of throwing down his load in some possible terrivy and leaving ...
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... nature of William Pitt -that strong , splenetic nature , so full of impulse and ambi- tion , and so keenly gifted with the capacity of suffering . We are so accustomed , in the absence of parliamentary re- ports , or any means of ...
... nature of William Pitt -that strong , splenetic nature , so full of impulse and ambi- tion , and so keenly gifted with the capacity of suffering . We are so accustomed , in the absence of parliamentary re- ports , or any means of ...
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... nature of that bewildering opposition which worked so arrogantly and selfishly against him . The rapacious and overbearing Whig chiefs , schem- ing against one another , and appropriating everything " Waldegrave's Memoirs , " p . 18 ...
... nature of that bewildering opposition which worked so arrogantly and selfishly against him . The rapacious and overbearing Whig chiefs , schem- ing against one another , and appropriating everything " Waldegrave's Memoirs , " p . 18 ...
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Страница 28 - The weight of irremoveable royal displeasure is a load too great to move under : it must crush any man ; it has sunk and broke me. I succumb ; and wish for nothing but a decent and innocent retreat...
Страница 101 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Страница 69 - They bear the mandate ; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work ; For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar : and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon : O, 'tis most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet.
Страница 56 - ... powerful of the set, they easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy. As if it were to insult as well as to betray him, even long before the close of the first session of his administration, when everything was publicly transacted, and with great parade, in his name, they made an Act declaring it highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America.
Страница 203 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
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.