Letters Between the Duke of Grafton, the Earls of Halifax, Egrémont, Chatham, Temple, and Talbot, Baron Bottetourt, Right Hon. Henry Bilson Legge, Right Hon. Sir John Cust, Bart., Mr. Charles Churchill, Monsieur Voltaire, the Abbé Winckelman, &c., &c., and John Wilkes Esq: With Explanatory Notes .... Vol.I1769 - 335 страници |
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... some distance from the house . It was near feven , and the moon fhone very bright . We stood about eight yards diftant , and agreed not to turn round before we fired , but to continue facing each other . Harris gave the word . Both our ...
... some distance from the house . It was near feven , and the moon fhone very bright . We stood about eight yards diftant , and agreed not to turn round before we fired , but to continue facing each other . Harris gave the word . Both our ...
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... Some churches have been built from devotion , others from parade , or vanity . I believe this is the firft church , which has been built for a prof- pect . The word memento in immenfe letters on the steeple furprifed and per- plexed me ...
... Some churches have been built from devotion , others from parade , or vanity . I believe this is the firft church , which has been built for a prof- pect . The word memento in immenfe letters on the steeple furprifed and per- plexed me ...
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... and therefore I wish to see the profecution quafhed . Some gentlemen who are my friends , have undertaken to find out and talk with those who are supposed to have in- fluence I fluence with the faid admiral : may beg the [ 61 ]
... and therefore I wish to see the profecution quafhed . Some gentlemen who are my friends , have undertaken to find out and talk with those who are supposed to have in- fluence I fluence with the faid admiral : may beg the [ 61 ]
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... Some fpecimens of this kind in our own tongue , which your lordship has feen , have much amufed me , although the deviations from the vulgar mode might not perhaps be fupported with the learned arguments of that amaz- I ing French ...
... Some fpecimens of this kind in our own tongue , which your lordship has feen , have much amufed me , although the deviations from the vulgar mode might not perhaps be fupported with the learned arguments of that amaz- I ing French ...
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... Some pretended to give an Icon Bafilike of his facred majesty King George the Third from that fingle word . The political writer , the Briton , in feveral paffages followed the royal Ortho graphy . fcribed fcribed to your lordship , the ...
... Some pretended to give an Icon Bafilike of his facred majesty King George the Third from that fingle word . The political writer , the Briton , in feveral paffages followed the royal Ortho graphy . fcribed fcribed to your lordship , the ...
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Страница 311 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Страница 71 - Wilkes, esq. herewith sent you, for being the author and publisher of a most infamous and seditious libel, intitled, The North Briton, No. 45, tending to inflame the minds and alienate the affections of the people from his majesty, and to excite them to traitorous insurrections against the government...
Страница 24 - I should never resolve him that question, till he made out the right of putting it, and that if I could have entertained any other idea, I was too well bred to have given his lordship and colonel Berkeley the trouble of coming to Bagshot.
Страница 101 - The North Briton," in which I have been named or even alluded to, was written by...
Страница 221 - I wish, my lord, to owe this to the mercy of my Prince. I entreat your grace to lay me with all humility at the King's feet...
Страница 26 - I was a wretch, who fought his life. I reminded him, that I came there on a point of honour, to give his...
Страница 230 - Friendfhip is too pure a pleafure for a mind cankered with ambition, or the luft of power and grandeur. Lord Chatham declared in parliament the ftrongeft attachment to Lord Temple, one of the greateft characters our country could boaft, and faid " he -would live and die with his noble brother.
Страница 32 - His lordship paid me the highest encomiums on my courage, and said he would declare everywhere that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the inn to drink a bottle of claret together; which we did with great good humour, and much laughter.
Страница 35 - Sir Thomas Stapleton, Paul Whitehead, Mr. Wilkes, and other gentlemen to the number of twelve, rented the Abbey, and often retired there in the fummer. Among other amufements they had...
Страница 61 - Now whatever termination the trial may have, we shall infallibly be exposed to a considerable expense, and therefore I wish to see the prosecution quashed. Some gentlemen who are my friends have undertaken to find out, and talk with those who are supposed to have influence with the said Admiral; may I beg the same favour of you and your friends...