Timon, but not of Athens [by J. Sedgwick].1840 |
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... Princess of Wales . You know , Madam , that at times when Lady J. has not been in waiting , you have asked to dinner other of your ladies , ( or , at least , always might have done so , had you pleased , ) than the one which happened to ...
... Princess of Wales . You know , Madam , that at times when Lady J. has not been in waiting , you have asked to dinner other of your ladies , ( or , at least , always might have done so , had you pleased , ) than the one which happened to ...
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... princess of Wales ; but you well know , that no blame can , on that head , rest with me , or with the King , whose honourable support to me , I must always acknowledge with most grateful sensibility . However , these wishes on my part ...
... princess of Wales ; but you well know , that no blame can , on that head , rest with me , or with the King , whose honourable support to me , I must always acknowledge with most grateful sensibility . However , these wishes on my part ...
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... Princess of Wales . " MADAM , " Your letter exacts from me a few words of reply , after which , I hope , this unpleasant kind of correspondence will entirely cease . You completely misapprehend the language which you state to have been ...
... Princess of Wales . " MADAM , " Your letter exacts from me a few words of reply , after which , I hope , this unpleasant kind of correspondence will entirely cease . You completely misapprehend the language which you state to have been ...
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... princess of Wales , in a condition , by your means , to indulge without constraint a virtue dear to my heart — I mean benevolence . It will make it also more incumbent upon me to act from another motive , that of giving an example of pa ...
... princess of Wales , in a condition , by your means , to indulge without constraint a virtue dear to my heart — I mean benevolence . It will make it also more incumbent upon me to act from another motive , that of giving an example of pa ...
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James Sedgwick. to his public treatment of the princess - but to his treatment of ... princess should be indignant at having the companionship of Lady Jersey ... Wales . " MADAM , - Though the paper which was last delivered to you by the ...
James Sedgwick. to his public treatment of the princess - but to his treatment of ... princess should be indignant at having the companionship of Lady Jersey ... Wales . " MADAM , - Though the paper which was last delivered to you by the ...
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Page 16 - He will see here with his own eyes that these descriptions of men are an abandoned confederacy against the happiness of the mass of the people. The omnipotence of their effect cannot be better proved than in this country particularly, where, notwithstanding the finest soil upon earth, the finest climate under heaven, and a people of the most benevolent, the most gay and amiable character of which the human form is susceptible — where such a people, I say, surrounded by so many blessings from nature,...
Page 14 - In your old states you possessed that variety of parts corresponding with the various descriptions of which your community was happily composed ; you had all that combination, and all that opposition of interests, you bad that action and counteraction which, in.
Page 287 - I shall now finally close this disagreeable correspondence, trusting that as we have completely explained ourselves to each other, the rest of our lives will be passed in uninterrupted tranquillity. I am, Madam, With great truth Very sincerely yours, GEORGE P.
Page 139 - I should propose a regulation to be made, declaring that no child born from any marriage taking place after the expiration of a year from the date of the law, and no illegitimate child born two years from the same date, should ever be entitled to parish assistance.
Page 14 - ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe.
Page 281 - The Lord cause His face to shine upon you, and comfort you in all your adversities ; and enable you to do great things for the glory of your Most High God, and to be a relief unto His people. My dear son, I leave my heart with thee. A good night !' — and therewith sank into her long sleep.
Page 147 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders...
Page 162 - THE Law of Honour is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one another; and for no other purpose.
Page 148 - The report of a provision for all that come fills the hall with numerous claimants. The order and harmony of the feast is disturbed; the plenty that before reigned is changed into scarcity;. and the happiness of the guests is destroyed by the spectacle of misery and dependence in every...
Page 8 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.