Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 91836 |
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... political charlatan John Wilkes , at whose instigation he wrote The Prophecy of Famine , ' a bitter and scurrilous satire directed against the Scottish nation . Of this poem , Wilkes declared before its appearance in January , 1763 ...
... political charlatan John Wilkes , at whose instigation he wrote The Prophecy of Famine , ' a bitter and scurrilous satire directed against the Scottish nation . Of this poem , Wilkes declared before its appearance in January , 1763 ...
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... political nature , he was permitted to depart in the company of two guards , who attended him on board , and did not leave him until he had proceeded three miles from the shore , when they spun him round on the deck , and left him to ...
... political nature , he was permitted to depart in the company of two guards , who attended him on board , and did not leave him until he had proceeded three miles from the shore , when they spun him round on the deck , and left him to ...
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... political sen- timents of Lady Mary were conformable with those of Sir Robert Walpole and his administration , and ... politics ; and as both were poets , they were in habits of literary communication , and sometimes assisted each other ...
... political sen- timents of Lady Mary were conformable with those of Sir Robert Walpole and his administration , and ... politics ; and as both were poets , they were in habits of literary communication , and sometimes assisted each other ...
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... political parties of their day ; the letters them- selves are , besides , models of epistolary composition ... politicians became ministers to the king . The most promising of the young lords and gentlemen of the party , and the ...
... political parties of their day ; the letters them- selves are , besides , models of epistolary composition ... politicians became ministers to the king . The most promising of the young lords and gentlemen of the party , and the ...
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... political prejudices against Mrs Howard . It is therefore not surprising that stories , thus envenomed by faction , should be often unfounded , and al- ways exaggerated . Walpole had , moreover , a decided antipathy to George the Second ...
... political prejudices against Mrs Howard . It is therefore not surprising that stories , thus envenomed by faction , should be often unfounded , and al- ways exaggerated . Walpole had , moreover , a decided antipathy to George the Second ...
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Page 334 - ... commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my lords, any state is better than despair. Let us, at least, make one effort; and, if we must fall, let us fall like men!
Page 351 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the Peers and the Crown to a tax, is only necessary to close with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Page 372 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 325 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Page 438 - I do not know how others feel; but if I had stood in that situation, I never would have exchanged it for all that kings in their profusion could bestow.
Page 326 - To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Page 329 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Page 256 - Hogarth's necessity for the money. If, therefore, his Lordship does not send for it, in three days it will be disposed of, with the addition of a tail, and some other little appendages, to Mr. Hare, the famous wild-beast man : Mr. Hogarth having given that gentleman a conditional promise of it, for an exhibition-picture, on his Lordship's refusal.
Page 328 - The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.
Page 325 - ... neither trite and vulgar, nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the House just between wind and water ; and, not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious or more earnest than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required, to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed exactly to the temper of the House ; and he seemed to guide, because he was always sure to follow it.