Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole: Earl of Orford, Band 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1816 |
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... continued to act the same subordinate part as before ; and the new secretary , lord Harring- ton , received his impulse from the minister of finance , or from his brother Horace . Walpole , therefore , now took a more open and decided ...
... continued to act the same subordinate part as before ; and the new secretary , lord Harring- ton , received his impulse from the minister of finance , or from his brother Horace . Walpole , therefore , now took a more open and decided ...
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... continued at the court of Vienna from 1730 to 1748 , when he was de- puted embassador and joint plenipotentiary with the earl of Sandwich , to conclude the peace of Aix - la - Chapelle . His dispatches are clear and perspicuous , so ...
... continued at the court of Vienna from 1730 to 1748 , when he was de- puted embassador and joint plenipotentiary with the earl of Sandwich , to conclude the peace of Aix - la - Chapelle . His dispatches are clear and perspicuous , so ...
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... continued to support the administration . On the communication of the plot in which bishop Atterbury was involved , he moved for an address to congratulate the king on the discovery of so dangerous and unnatural a confederacy . He was ...
... continued to support the administration . On the communication of the plot in which bishop Atterbury was involved , he moved for an address to congratulate the king on the discovery of so dangerous and unnatural a confederacy . He was ...
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... continued inflexible . At length , the king said to him , it is hard you will not let me be an honest man . What would you , continued his majesty , think yourself of one , who refused to pay his butcher , his baker , and other honest ...
... continued inflexible . At length , the king said to him , it is hard you will not let me be an honest man . What would you , continued his majesty , think yourself of one , who refused to pay his butcher , his baker , and other honest ...
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... ( continued the gentleman ) since you acquaint me with the terms you have made for me , what are those you have made for the P- , who hath acted so honourable and steady a part to those with whom he engaged , and who are now in opposition ...
... ( continued the gentleman ) since you acquaint me with the terms you have made for me , what are those you have made for the P- , who hath acted so honourable and steady a part to those with whom he engaged , and who are now in opposition ...
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Seite 40 - Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, , Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Seite 40 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Seite 40 - ... now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Seite 148 - ... all his art to destroy the fountain from whence that mercy flowed. In that country, suppose him continually contracting friendships and familiarities with the ambassadors of those princes who at the time happen to be most at enmity with his own. And if at any time it should happen to be for the interest of any of those foreign Ministers to have a secret divulged to them which might be highly prejudicial to his native country, as well as to all...
Seite 310 - And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Seite 115 - In the present inflamed temper of the people, the act could not be carried into execution without an armed force...
Seite 39 - A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk, Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Seite 147 - ... gentlemen, with respect to their political behaviour, moved by him, and by him solely, all they say, either in private or public, being only a repetition of the words he has put into their mouths, and a spitting out...
Seite 286 - Disraeli's motion, that the House should resolve itself into a committee to take into consideration the state of the nation, was negatived by a majority of 296 to 156.
Seite 147 - ... administration, by the name of blunderer. Suppose this fine gentleman lucky enough to have gained over to his party some persons really of fine parts, of ancient families and of great fortunes, and others of desperate views arising from disappointed and malicious hearts...