Observations on the Historical Work of the Late Right Honorable Charles James FoxT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809 - 282 страници |
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... reasons for fuch indiscriminate censure on them . Some of their works he appears not to have read , characterizing authors without distinction , under one general de- scription , whose principles of historical discussion seem to be ...
... reasons for fuch indiscriminate censure on them . Some of their works he appears not to have read , characterizing authors without distinction , under one general de- scription , whose principles of historical discussion seem to be ...
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... reasons thereupon inju- riously to the memories of distinguished men . Mr. Fox has told us that he did so ; he says , " he was too " scrupulous in that respect ; " and his noble relation , who edited the work , in the execution of which ...
... reasons thereupon inju- riously to the memories of distinguished men . Mr. Fox has told us that he did so ; he says , " he was too " scrupulous in that respect ; " and his noble relation , who edited the work , in the execution of which ...
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... reason , Second Institute , p . 179 ; and Plowden , in his learned Commentaries , says , " it is no other than pure and tried reason . " Case of Mines , fo . 316. Lord Ellesmere describes it as grounded on the law of God , and extending ...
... reason , Second Institute , p . 179 ; and Plowden , in his learned Commentaries , says , " it is no other than pure and tried reason . " Case of Mines , fo . 316. Lord Ellesmere describes it as grounded on the law of God , and extending ...
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... reason to believe that the men who were in power at the time were looking with much more anxiety to the means of continuing themselves in their situations , or improving them , than to any other object ; and that those who were out of ...
... reason to believe that the men who were in power at the time were looking with much more anxiety to the means of continuing themselves in their situations , or improving them , than to any other object ; and that those who were out of ...
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... reason to suppose , that even this provision was ' owing to any other cause , rather than to any generous feeling of his breast : for he afterwards not only acquiesced in the insults so meanly put upon " the illustrious corpse of Blake ...
... reason to suppose , that even this provision was ' owing to any other cause , rather than to any generous feeling of his breast : for he afterwards not only acquiesced in the insults so meanly put upon " the illustrious corpse of Blake ...
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Страница 51 - ... by concern for her father, she stumbled over the graves every night alone, without fear of any kind entering her thoughts, but for soldiers and parties in search of him, which the least noise or motion of a leaf put her in terror for. The minister's house was near the church ; the first night she went, his dogs kept such a barking as put her in the utmost fear of a discovery ; my grand-mother sent for the minister the next day, and upon pretence of a mad dog, got him to hang all his dogs.
Страница 51 - Lord Marchmont*) had done, he looked up with astonishment, and said, 'Mother, will ye look at Grizzel ; while we have been eating our broth, she has eat up the whole sheep's head.
Страница 141 - Lord Russel intriguing with the court of Versailles, and Algernon Sidney taking money from it, I felt very near the same shock as if I had seen a son turn his back in the day of battle.
Страница 55 - My aunt played and sung well, and had a great deal of life and humour, but no turn to business. Though my mother had the same qualifications, and liked it as well as she did, she was forced to drudge ; and many...
Страница 57 - The best entertainment he could give them, was a glass of alabast beer, which was a better kind of ale than common. He sent his son Andrew, the late Lord Kimmerghame, a boy, to draw some for them in the cellar : he brought it up with great diligence ; but in the other hand the spiket of the barrel.
Страница xxiv - He was haughty beyond expression ; abject to those he saw he must stoop to, but imperious to all others. He had a violence of passion that carried him often to fits like madness, in which he had no temper. If he took a thing wrong, it was a vain thing to study to convince him : that would rather provoke him to...
Страница xxiii - He made a very ill appearance : he was very big : his hair red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court.
Страница 11 - Monk had been truly given, when of him. he said, ' the army had fallen into the hands of one, than whom a baser could not be found in its lowest ranks.
Страница xiii - ... danger to undergo the like, we have thought fit to signify our pleasure in that behalf for the future ; and do hereby require, that if there be any of those people called Quakers amongst you, now already condemned to suffer death or other corporal punishment, or that are imprisoned, and obnoxious to the like condemnation, you are to forbear to proceed any further therein...
Страница 52 - ... her father ventured home, having that to trust to. After being at home a week or two, the bed daily examined as usual, one day in lifting the boards, the bed bounced to the top, the box being: full of water...