Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfeild: Earl of Charlemont, Volumul 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 |
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Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfeild ..., Volumul 2 Francis Hardy Vizualizare completă - 1812 |
Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfeild ..., Volumul 2 Francis Hardy Vizualizare completă - 1812 |
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Pagina 282 - no matter how that was said ; but whoever relishes, and reads Spenser as he ought to be read, will have a strong hold of the English language.
Pagina 221 - ... manner. It is true that this may be no more than a sudden explosion ; if so, no indication can be taken from it ; but if it should be character, rather than accident, then that people are not fit for liberty, and must have a strong hand, like that of their former masters, to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of natural moderation to qualify them for freedom, else it becomes noxious to themselves, and a perfect nuisance to everybody else. What will be the event, it is hard, I think, still...
Pagina 240 - See now what you obtain by compensation — a covenant not to trade beyond the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan; a covenant not to take...
Pagina 170 - The strife was ended by the recovery of the King from his temporary fit of insanity, and nowhere was that recovery hailed with louder rejoicings than at Oxford. A public dinner was given by the corporation, the city flag was displayed...
Pagina 281 - ... of natural, or local history, furnished him with abundant materials for conversation. The house at Uxbridge, where the treaty was held, during Charles the First's time ; the beautiful, and undulating grounds of Buls'trode, formerly the residence of Chancellor...
Pagina 14 - I did know, and to suspect those whom I did not, that when I am obliged to call myself a minister, I feel as if I put myself into a very suspicious character; but I do assure you I am the very same man, in all respects, that I was when you knew me, and honoured me with some share in your esteem—that I maintain the same opinions, and act with the same people.
Pagina 218 - ... prospect of power into the possession of reputation, by an effectual defence of themselves. There was an opportunity which was not made use of for that purpose, and which could scarcely have failed of turning the tables on their adversaries.
Pagina 14 - The particular time of year at which this change happens, is productive of many great inconveniences, especially as it will be very difficult for the Duke of Portland to be at Dublin before your Parliament meets ; but I cannot help hoping that all reasonable men will concur in removing some of these difficulties, and that a short adjournment will not be denied, if asked. I do not throw out this as knowing from any authority that it will be proposed, but as an idea that suggests itself to me, and...
Pagina 320 - To destroy the influence of landed property is the object of individual representation, but its immediate effect would be to extinguish the people. The rich might, for a time, make a struggle ; they might in some places buy...
Pagina 108 - Minutes of the convention, memorandums, kc. it was convened, might justly have expected. From every quarter, and from every speculatist, great clerks, or no clerks at all, was poured in such a multiplicity of plans of reform, some of them ingenious, some which bespoke an exercised and rational mind, but, in general, as I have been well assured, so utterly impracticable, " So rugged and so wild in their attire...