Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning, Volum 2Richard Bentley, 1868 |
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... post which was not political , and which removed him from the angry arena in which he would have had to combat with former friends . Thus much for the Bombay Recordership . But the feverish panic which the sanguinary govern- ment of ...
... post which was not political , and which removed him from the angry arena in which he would have had to combat with former friends . Thus much for the Bombay Recordership . But the feverish panic which the sanguinary govern- ment of ...
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... Post , calling upon the reformers to pay for returning him to Parliament , " my employ- ment was clipping of box - edgings and weeding beds of flowers in the garden of the Bishop of Winchester at the castle of Farnham , my native town ...
... Post , calling upon the reformers to pay for returning him to Parliament , " my employ- ment was clipping of box - edgings and weeding beds of flowers in the garden of the Bishop of Winchester at the castle of Farnham , my native town ...
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... posts the least important are often the most necessary . Our employments are ex- tremely different , and so are our talents . ' for use . " This had a most wonderful effect ; the most stupid began to open their ears ; perhaps it would ...
... posts the least important are often the most necessary . Our employments are ex- tremely different , and so are our talents . ' for use . " This had a most wonderful effect ; the most stupid began to open their ears ; perhaps it would ...
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... post of Lord Lieutenant was a fair type of his own ministry , that person being a sensible good - natured man , with nothing brilliant or striking in his manner or abilities , but carrying into his high office the honest intention to ...
... post of Lord Lieutenant was a fair type of his own ministry , that person being a sensible good - natured man , with nothing brilliant or striking in his manner or abilities , but carrying into his high office the honest intention to ...
Side 224
... post - chaises ; he felt himself called upon to declare that his poor faculties were at the service of his country - of the free and enlightened part of it , at least he stood here as a man ; he stood in the eye , indeed in the hand ...
... post - chaises ; he felt himself called upon to declare that his poor faculties were at the service of his country - of the free and enlightened part of it , at least he stood here as a man ; he stood in the eye , indeed in the hand ...
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Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning, Volum 2 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning, Volum 2 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning, Volum 2 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
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Side 420 - In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent.
Side 77 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Side 222 - Was it the squire for killing of his game? or Covetous parson for his tithes distraining? Or roguish lawyer made you lose your little All in a lawsuit? (Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Side 222 - Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir, Only last night a-drinking at the " Chequers," This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. Constables came up for to take me into Custody ; they took me before the justice ; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parishstocks for a vagrant.
Side 259 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Side 338 - ... the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion, how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage, how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of...
Side 109 - I had always been fond of beautiful gardens ; and a gardener, who had just come from the king's gardens at Kew, gave such a description of them as made me instantly resolve to work in these gardens. The next morning, without saying a word to any one, off I set, with no clothes, except those upon my back, and with thirteen halfpence in my pocket. I found that I must go to Richmond, and I, accordingly, went on from place to place inquiring my way thither.
Side 351 - It was only on last Friday night that this precise information arrived. On Saturday His Majesty's confidential servants came to a decision. On Sunday that decision received the sanction of His Majesty. On Monday it was communicated to both Houses of Parliament, and this day, Sir, at the hour in which I have the honour of addressing you, the troops are on their march for embarkation.