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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... likewise attend . Mr. Wilkes declared he would leave every particular of time , place , & c . to their two friends , and would abide by their determination . Captain Forbes promised that he would bring his fecond ; but As but came at ...
... likewise attend . Mr. Wilkes declared he would leave every particular of time , place , & c . to their two friends , and would abide by their determination . Captain Forbes promised that he would bring his fecond ; but As but came at ...
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... likewise a fhort account of the duel . " When the gentlemen met in Hyde Park , they walked " together for a little while to avoid fome company , which " feemed coming up to them . They brought each a pair of " piftols . When they were ...
... likewise a fhort account of the duel . " When the gentlemen met in Hyde Park , they walked " together for a little while to avoid fome company , which " feemed coming up to them . They brought each a pair of " piftols . When they were ...
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... likewise voluntarily entered my appear- ance to the actions brought at law against me , as foon as I knew the determination of the Majority , that all the irregularities against me should be justified , and that no privilege fhould be ...
... likewise voluntarily entered my appear- ance to the actions brought at law against me , as foon as I knew the determination of the Majority , that all the irregularities against me should be justified , and that no privilege fhould be ...
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... likewise true of the firft orator , or rather the firft comedian , of our age , non difplicuiffe illi jocos , fed non contigiffe + . I will now fubmit to your grace , if there was not fomething peculiarly base and perfidious in Mr ...
... likewise true of the firft orator , or rather the firft comedian , of our age , non difplicuiffe illi jocos , fed non contigiffe + . I will now fubmit to your grace , if there was not fomething peculiarly base and perfidious in Mr ...
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... , be efteemed the ftrangeft . But the more they reform , the lefs perhaps they will entertain , which I wish may not be likewise the cafe of our reforming friend . However if Mr. *** be in earneft fo defperately refolved on if [ 284 ]
... , be efteemed the ftrangeft . But the more they reform , the lefs perhaps they will entertain , which I wish may not be likewise the cafe of our reforming friend . However if Mr. *** be in earneft fo defperately refolved on if [ 284 ]
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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...