History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Volume 1J. Murray, 1858 - Great Britain |
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... less than 2,000 houses and 20,000 people . * But the legions of half - pay officers and soldiers still remaining at home suggested another measure of pru- dence and precaution ; a clause , now for the first time added to the annual ...
... less than 2,000 houses and 20,000 people . * But the legions of half - pay officers and soldiers still remaining at home suggested another measure of pru- dence and precaution ; a clause , now for the first time added to the annual ...
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... less grievous than sudden ; the Princess was left with eight children , and seven months pregnant of another . Cling- ing to the last gleams of hope , she remained in his room four hours after he was dead before she could be quite ...
... less grievous than sudden ; the Princess was left with eight children , and seven months pregnant of another . Cling- ing to the last gleams of hope , she remained in his room four hours after he was dead before she could be quite ...
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... less of protecting than of wearing the " Crown ! " Mr. Fox , with great warmth , repelled this covert attack on his princely patron , and an unseemly altercation thus arose between two members of the same administration , -between the ...
... less of protecting than of wearing the " Crown ! " Mr. Fox , with great warmth , repelled this covert attack on his princely patron , and an unseemly altercation thus arose between two members of the same administration , -between the ...
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... less flagrant and oppressive than at first sight they seem to be , since we find that far less apparent grievances have raised a far higher and more general resentment . 66 66 66 The lull of political tempests during this year in Par ...
... less flagrant and oppressive than at first sight they seem to be , since we find that far less apparent grievances have raised a far higher and more general resentment . 66 66 66 The lull of political tempests during this year in Par ...
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... less were they imbued with the senti- ment which was nobly expressed by Lyttleton in one of these debates : " He who hates another man for not being 16 a Christian is himself not a Christian . " * The ferment , however , once raised ...
... less were they imbued with the senti- ment which was nobly expressed by Lyttleton in one of these debates : " He who hates another man for not being 16 a Christian is himself not a Christian . " * The ferment , however , once raised ...
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Page 268 - Buenos Ayres. Our great successes in this year both by sea and land afforded opposite arguments to the contending parties at home. The partisans of Bute and Newcastle might boast that Victory had not resigned with Mr. Pitt. On the other hand, the followers or admirers of the Great Commoner put forth a variety of ingenious illustrations tending to prove that the honour of the recent conquests belonged in truth to him : — " The single eloquence of Mr. " Pitt, like an annihilated star, can shine many...
Page 71 - Blakeney landed with his garrison at Portsmouth than he was created an Irish Baron. General Fowke, on the contrary, was brought to trial for dis* H.
Page 211 - He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant : his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours, his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself soon descend ; think how unpleasant a situation! He bore it all with a firm and unaffected countenance.
Page 35 - Graced as thou art, with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the house of lords : Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh (More silent far,) where kings and poets lie : Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...
Page 21 - Christianity, from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire. 3 Vols. Post Svo. 18>. Latin Christianity, including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V.
Page 212 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle ; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.
Page 241 - I am sorry for it, since otherwise he would have certainly compelled us to leave him [Has ruled us, may not I say, with a rod of iron !] But if he be resolved to assume the office of exclusively advising his Majesty and directing the operations of the War, to what purpose are we called to this Council ? When he talks of being responsible to the People, he talks the language of the House of Commons; forgets that, at this Board, he is only responsible to the King.
Page 211 - ... all this was very solemn. But the charm was the entrance of the Abbey, where we were received by the Dean and Chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaroscuro.
Page 8 - If I was surprised to find him there, I was still more astonished when he acquainted me with the motives which had induced him to hazard a journey to England at this juncture. The impatience of his friends who were in exile had formed a scheme which was impracticable; but although it had been as feasible as they had represented it to him, yet no preparation had been made, nor was anything ready to carry it into execution.
Page 153 - As the evening advanced, Wolfe — heated, perhaps, by his own aspiring thoughts, and the unwonted society of statesmen — broke forth into a strain of gasconade and bravado. He drew his sword, he rapped the table with it, he flourished it round the room, he talked of the mighty things which that sword was to achieve. The two ministers sat aghast at an exhibition so unusual from any man of real sense and real spirit.