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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... never yet received the letter to me at Winchester , which Mr. Secker tells me was fent there a fortnight ago . I have juft now the honour of your lordship's by that gen- tleman . Your lordship afks , if I avow or difclaim being author ...
... never yet received the letter to me at Winchester , which Mr. Secker tells me was fent there a fortnight ago . I have juft now the honour of your lordship's by that gen- tleman . Your lordship afks , if I avow or difclaim being author ...
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... never have read the contents of it . I fuppofe they are the fame with the letter I had the honour of receiving and anfwering by Mr. Secker . I am , my lord , Your lordship's most obedient , humble fervant , JOHN WILKES . Directed to ...
... never have read the contents of it . I fuppofe they are the fame with the letter I had the honour of receiving and anfwering by Mr. Secker . I am , my lord , Your lordship's most obedient , humble fervant , JOHN WILKES . Directed to ...
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... the question to me about the paper of the 21st of August , and till I do , I will never refolve your lordship on that head , though I would any friend I have in the world , world , who had the curiosity of asking me , [ 15 ]
... the question to me about the paper of the 21st of August , and till I do , I will never refolve your lordship on that head , though I would any friend I have in the world , world , who had the curiosity of asking me , [ 15 ]
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... never re- folve him that queftion , 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 trou- ble of coming to Bagfhot ...
... never re- folve him that queftion , 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 trou- ble of coming to Bagfhot ...
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... never , I believe , offended Mr. Wilkes : why has he attacked me ? he must be forry to see me unhappy . I afked upon what grounds his lordship imputed the paper to me ; that Mr. Wilkes would justify any paper to which he had put his ...
... never , I believe , offended Mr. Wilkes : why has he attacked me ? he must be forry to see me unhappy . I afked upon what grounds his lordship imputed the paper to me ; that Mr. Wilkes would justify any paper to which he had put his ...
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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...