 If it would but please God, by his lightning, to blast all the vines in the world, and by his thunder to turn all the wines now in Ireland sour, as I most sincerely wish he would, Ireland would enjoy a degree of quiet and plenty that it has never yet...  Letters: Letters, political and miscellaneous - Page 110by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892Full view - About this book
 | English essays - 1780 - 674 pages
...in the world, and by his thunder to turn all the wine? now in Ireland four, as I moft fincerely with he would, Ireland would enjoy a degree of quiet and plenty that it has never yet knewn." Lord Cheilerfield, I admit, was too fine a gentleman ; yet he had fomc " reafon in his race,"... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...and upon the very day, that they may pay their wine-merchants.' In 1754 he wrote (ib. p. 359) : — ' If it would but please God by his lightning to blast...of quiet and plenty that it has never yet known.' ' See ante, p. 108. some 286 Scottish and English Clergy. [Sept. 23. some distance in the sea, there... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 642 pages
...her the last week in April. To MAJOR IRWINE. (Works, vol. iv. p. 359.) SIR, London, March 7, 1754. A LONG and painful illness has hindered me from thanking...Clergy, and among our Knights of Shires, Burgesses, &c., and in general among all those worthy honest gentlemen, who toast and are toasted. But I will... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 302 pages
...promote sobriety extremely, if the effects of conjugal affection were fully considered. n,. ;v. 23,. If it would but please God, by his lightning, to blast...desolation which I know it would occasion in our two Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom. Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom. learned universities, the body... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1892 - 726 pages
...MAJOR IRWINE. (Works, vol. iv. p. 359.) London, March 7, 1754. SIR, A LONG and painful illness Las hindered me from thanking you sooner for the favour...Clergy, and among our Knights of Shires, Burgesses, &c., and iu general among all those worthy honest gentlemen, who toast and are toasted. But I will... | |
 | Miss H. M. Walker - Great Britain - 1919 - 582 pages
...Chesterfield, on March 7th, 1754, wrote: " If it would but please God by his lightening to blast ail the vines in the world, and by his thunder to turn...of quiet and plenty that it has never yet known." Lord Hartington, afterwards the fourth Duke of Devonshire, succeeded Dorset, and by his judicious rule... | |
 | James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 390 pages
...being annually imported into that country; and in his eighty-sixth there is the following passage: "If it would but please GOD, by his lightning, to...of quiet and plenty that it has never yet known." Lord Chesterfield, I admit, was too fine a gentleman; yet he had some "reason in his rage,"18 when... | |
 | James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 394 pages
...fine a gentleman; yet he had some "reason in his rage,"18 when he wrote thus. The noble writer adds, "By the way I am not so partial neither to Ireland,...this my native country, notwithstanding the grief 17 Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield — diplomat in politics and society, lord-lieutenant... | |
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