Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward, Esq: Author of "The Law of Nations", "Tremaine", "De Vere", Etc., Etc. : with Selections from His Correspondence, Diaries, and Unpublished Literary Remains, Band 2J. Murray, 1850 |
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... hand that your health should have rendered this measure advisable , and without , on the other , expressing my very sincere delight in finding that you have con- sented not to withdraw from us altogether , but that I may still consider ...
... hand that your health should have rendered this measure advisable , and without , on the other , expressing my very sincere delight in finding that you have con- sented not to withdraw from us altogether , but that I may still consider ...
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... Duke appeared to be au fait of the business in hand , and ready to cope with the details as they from time to presented themselves . CHAP . II . TOUR OF INSPECTION TO NORTHERN DISTRICT CHAP . I. ] 15 THE DUKE AT THE ORDNANCE .
... Duke appeared to be au fait of the business in hand , and ready to cope with the details as they from time to presented themselves . CHAP . II . TOUR OF INSPECTION TO NORTHERN DISTRICT CHAP . I. ] 15 THE DUKE AT THE ORDNANCE .
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... , but not the less anti - Government . Said as to the mob , he had stood within the Temple gates in 1780 with a field - piece , and a match in his hand , re- solved to blow the mob to the devil , and 32 [ СНАР . ІІ . EXTRACTS FROM.
... , but not the less anti - Government . Said as to the mob , he had stood within the Temple gates in 1780 with a field - piece , and a match in his hand , re- solved to blow the mob to the devil , and 32 [ СНАР . ІІ . EXTRACTS FROM.
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... hand on the carriage - door , upon which a footman behind said he would break his arm if he did not let go . The mob called out , " Kill him ! " and were pro- ceeding to violence when the police came up . I was amused with a ...
... hand on the carriage - door , upon which a footman behind said he would break his arm if he did not let go . The mob called out , " Kill him ! " and were pro- ceeding to violence when the police came up . I was amused with a ...
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... hand with friendliness , and post- poned the subject . Since that I saw him but once . I was obliged , however , at the beginning , to move a vote of credit of 250,000l . in the Committee of Sup- ply , upon which Mr. Hume , who seems to ...
... hand with friendliness , and post- poned the subject . Since that I saw him but once . I was obliged , however , at the beginning , to move a vote of credit of 250,000l . in the Committee of Sup- ply , upon which Mr. Hume , who seems to ...
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Seite 451 - With .skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping sound more sweet than all...
Seite 419 - Vaga echoes through her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Seite 337 - My choicest hours of life are lost; Yet always wishing to retreat, Oh, could I see my country seat ! There leaning near a gentle brook, Sleep, or peruse some ancient book, And there in sweet oblivion drown Those cares that haunt the court and town.
Seite 426 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Seite 354 - Lady Suffolk, in the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the queen: The queen so gracious, mild, and good, Cries, ' Is he gone? 'tis time he should.
Seite 439 - Then welcome business, welcome strife Welcome the cares, the thorns of life. The visage wan, the purblind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench, the babbling Hall, — • For thee, fair Justice, welcome all...
Seite 346 - I design to pass the greatest part of the time I stay in Ireland here in the cabin where I am now writing, neither will I leave the Kingdom till I am sent for ; and if they have no further service for me I will never see England again. At my first coming I thought I should have died with discontent, and was horribly melancholy while they were installing me ; but it begins to wear off, and change to dulness.
Seite 323 - Love thyself last. Cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Seite 401 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Seite 410 - The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen, which I thank God has befallen me ; and though among the follies of my life, building and planting have not been the least, and have cost me more than I have the confidence to own ; yet they have been fully recompensed by the sweetness and satisfaction of this retreat, where, since my resolution taken of never entering again into...