Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole: Earl of Orford, Band 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1816 |
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... king's German affairs.t While this negotiation was pending , the king * September 14-25 , 1730. Correspondence , Period V. + Lord Harrington to Mr. Robinson , Dec. 4-15 , 1730 . of Spain , irritated at the delay , declared , [ 1730- SIR ...
... king's German affairs.t While this negotiation was pending , the king * September 14-25 , 1730. Correspondence , Period V. + Lord Harrington to Mr. Robinson , Dec. 4-15 , 1730 . of Spain , irritated at the delay , declared , [ 1730- SIR ...
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... king had entered into engage- ments that did not relate to the interests of Great Britain , which would be a great instance of ingratitude towards the king , who in all his measures had never showed the least regard to any thing but the ...
... king had entered into engage- ments that did not relate to the interests of Great Britain , which would be a great instance of ingratitude towards the king , who in all his measures had never showed the least regard to any thing but the ...
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... king's goodness , " in endeavour- ing to have the conditions of the treaty of Seville fulfilled and executed , in such manner as might best secure a general pacification , and be conformable to his engagements with his allies ...
... king's goodness , " in endeavour- ing to have the conditions of the treaty of Seville fulfilled and executed , in such manner as might best secure a general pacification , and be conformable to his engagements with his allies ...
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... king's interests were concerned ; and to employ his best offices and instances with the Imperial ministers , for pro- curing the most effectual redress and satisfaction to the king upon the several demands which Dieden was instructed to ...
... king's interests were concerned ; and to employ his best offices and instances with the Imperial ministers , for pro- curing the most effectual redress and satisfaction to the king upon the several demands which Dieden was instructed to ...
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... king Harold's part , which pardon " is yet extant , and was lately in the hands of the lords of the manor of Waldegrave , & c . in the county of Northampton . This " town and manor was sold by Sir William Waldegrave , knight , in " the ...
... king Harold's part , which pardon " is yet extant , and was lately in the hands of the lords of the manor of Waldegrave , & c . in the county of Northampton . This " town and manor was sold by Sir William Waldegrave , knight , in " the ...
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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...