The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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... thought that by his patronage he might obtain more rapid promotion than he could in Catholic France , no longer the ally of his native country . For this , or some other reason , he changed sides , passed from France into Holland , and ...
... thought that by his patronage he might obtain more rapid promotion than he could in Catholic France , no longer the ally of his native country . For this , or some other reason , he changed sides , passed from France into Holland , and ...
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... thought himself slighted , and left the service in disgust , which , of course , gives occasion to his biographer to declaim against Dutch ingratitude . In 1676 , or 1677 , he returned to his native country to seek for employment there ...
... thought himself slighted , and left the service in disgust , which , of course , gives occasion to his biographer to declaim against Dutch ingratitude . In 1676 , or 1677 , he returned to his native country to seek for employment there ...
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... thought it would be no great fault ' to give him the trouble to go with the rest . ' The next day he writes , Mr. Welsh and others preach securely within twenty ' or thirty miles off , but we can do nothing for want of spies . ' Shortly ...
... thought it would be no great fault ' to give him the trouble to go with the rest . ' The next day he writes , Mr. Welsh and others preach securely within twenty ' or thirty miles off , but we can do nothing for want of spies . ' Shortly ...
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... thought that the covenanted ladies , whom he had marched to church , could not but turn away their eyes from the parson to admire his smart uniform and handsome face ! But for his zeal in this work , such as it was , he was made a ...
... thought that the covenanted ladies , whom he had marched to church , could not but turn away their eyes from the parson to admire his smart uniform and handsome face ! But for his zeal in this work , such as it was , he was made a ...
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... thought it necessary to write the Duke of York that neither love nor any other folly ' would seduce him from his loyalty . The marriage took place at Paisley ; and though the bridegroom protested that his bride was well principled ...
... thought it necessary to write the Duke of York that neither love nor any other folly ' would seduce him from his loyalty . The marriage took place at Paisley ; and though the bridegroom protested that his bride was well principled ...
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Page 418 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the tories ; and the tories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt.
Page 413 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest - -young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners; generous, and a despiser of money.
Page 430 - Let us suppose in this, or in some other unfortunate country, an anti-minister, who thinks himself a person of so great and extensive parts, and of so many eminent qualifications, that he looks upon himself as the only person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation...
Page 429 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Page 342 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 406 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
Page 432 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 400 - The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State in the reign of Queen Anne. By Thomas Macknight, author of the " History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke.
Page 413 - I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir William Temple because he might have been Secretary of State at fifty ; and here is a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment.
Page 31 - I will not; I am one of Christ's children; let me go :' And then they returned her into the water, where she finished her warfare ; being a virgin martyr of eighteen years of age, suffering death for her refusing to swear the oath of abjuration, and hear the curats.