Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole: Earl of Orford, Band 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1816 |
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... given by Collins , is incorrect in many particulars , a more accurate statement is here added from family documents , communicated by the countess of Waldegrave was speaker of the house of com- mons in 14 [ PERIOD 5. ] MEMOIRS OF [ CHAP ...
... given by Collins , is incorrect in many particulars , a more accurate statement is here added from family documents , communicated by the countess of Waldegrave was speaker of the house of com- mons in 14 [ PERIOD 5. ] MEMOIRS OF [ CHAP ...
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... given , than that Mr. Robinson was the person who was chosen to fill this important situation at this critical juncture . Thomas Robinson , afterwards knight of the Bath , and lord Grantham , was fourth son of Sir De la Faye to the earl ...
... given , than that Mr. Robinson was the person who was chosen to fill this important situation at this critical juncture . Thomas Robinson , afterwards knight of the Bath , and lord Grantham , was fourth son of Sir De la Faye to the earl ...
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... given by Pulteney himself , several years afterwards , when he was in the height of opposition . " You sent to him one day , as he was going out of town , desiring to speak with him , that , when he came , you told him of there ...
... given by Pulteney himself , several years afterwards , when he was in the height of opposition . " You sent to him one day , as he was going out of town , desiring to speak with him , that , when he came , you told him of there ...
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... given in Sedition and Defamation Displayed . The author also treated lord Hervey * with • John lord Hervey , eldest son of John the first earl of Bristol , was born in 1696. He came first into parliament soon after the accession of ...
... given in Sedition and Defamation Displayed . The author also treated lord Hervey * with • John lord Hervey , eldest son of John the first earl of Bristol , was born in 1696. He came first into parliament soon after the accession of ...
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... given a list of his political writings , in the catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors ; and among the Orford Papers , are draughts of several of those pamphlets which were submitted to Sir Robert Walpole . Some are corrected by him , in ...
... given a list of his political writings , in the catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors ; and among the Orford Papers , are draughts of several of those pamphlets which were submitted to Sir Robert Walpole . Some are corrected by him , in ...
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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...