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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... heart at fuch a moment are beyond all politicks , and indeed every thing else , but fuch virtue as lord Temple's . When I had fealed my letter , I told Lord Talbot that I was entirely at his fervice , and I again defired that we might ...
... heart at fuch a moment are beyond all politicks , and indeed every thing else , but fuch virtue as lord Temple's . When I had fealed my letter , I told Lord Talbot that I was entirely at his fervice , and I again defired that we might ...
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... heart , tho ' I make no parade of it , that I will fave the nation this expence , for I will not fuffer either of them to enter my doors . The Majority of the Commons , like true country people , feem to have a troublesome overflowing ...
... heart , tho ' I make no parade of it , that I will fave the nation this expence , for I will not fuffer either of them to enter my doors . The Majority of the Commons , like true country people , feem to have a troublesome overflowing ...
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... in the fenate loud , Dull ' mongst the dullest , proudest of the proud ; A pert , prim , prater of the northern race , Guilt in his heart , and famine in his face , c . Sir Henry Erskine , baronet , and the Home + Sir [ 150 ]
... in the fenate loud , Dull ' mongst the dullest , proudest of the proud ; A pert , prim , prater of the northern race , Guilt in his heart , and famine in his face , c . Sir Henry Erskine , baronet , and the Home + Sir [ 150 ]
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... heart , that the Earl of BUTE may speedily com- pleat the fiery of ROGER MORTIMER . I hope that your lordship will graciously condefcend to undertake this arduous tafk , to which parts like yours are pe- culiarly adapted . A variety of ...
... heart , that the Earl of BUTE may speedily com- pleat the fiery of ROGER MORTIMER . I hope that your lordship will graciously condefcend to undertake this arduous tafk , to which parts like yours are pe- culiarly adapted . A variety of ...
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... heart can pay . Yet in the peculiar circumstances of my cafe , I think that I ought not at present to reft contented with thanking you . I have always found a true plea- fure in fubmitting to you my parlia- mentary conduct . It is now ...
... heart can pay . Yet in the peculiar circumstances of my cafe , I think that I ought not at present to reft contented with thanking you . I have always found a true plea- fure in fubmitting to you my parlia- mentary conduct . It is now ...
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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...
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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.
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