Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke, Band 2R. Bentley, 1836 |
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... considered only as a political contrivance ; -not an edifice to stand vene- rable and intact amid the storms of party controversy ; but an engine to be fashioned to the purposes of the statesman , and to be directed to advance the ...
... considered only as a political contrivance ; -not an edifice to stand vene- rable and intact amid the storms of party controversy ; but an engine to be fashioned to the purposes of the statesman , and to be directed to advance the ...
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... throne was also a subject of reflection to him , and deprives him of much of his claim to the admiration of posterity . Bolingbroke considered that it was necessary for I. the preservation of the liberties of his country that 4 MEMOIRS OF.
... throne was also a subject of reflection to him , and deprives him of much of his claim to the admiration of posterity . Bolingbroke considered that it was necessary for I. the preservation of the liberties of his country that 4 MEMOIRS OF.
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... considered himself obliged by every obligation of duty , gratitude , honour , and even interest , to suggest whatever his experience could suggest as conducive to the interests of his majesty . His influence would henceforward be ...
... considered himself obliged by every obligation of duty , gratitude , honour , and even interest , to suggest whatever his experience could suggest as conducive to the interests of his majesty . His influence would henceforward be ...
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... considered his conduct to have been treacher- ous , he felt rather pity than resentment for the traitor . It was probably during these months that he wrote + Letter to Swift . * Parl . Hist . CHAP . II . A.D. 1716 . II . CHAP . the ...
... considered his conduct to have been treacher- ous , he felt rather pity than resentment for the traitor . It was probably during these months that he wrote + Letter to Swift . * Parl . Hist . CHAP . II . A.D. 1716 . II . CHAP . the ...
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... considered as the Augustan era of French literature . Among the great men who were then to be met in the assemblies of Paris , and whose names have since become fa- miliar to posterity , Bolingbroke occupied a distin- guished place a ...
... considered as the Augustan era of French literature . Among the great men who were then to be met in the assemblies of Paris , and whose names have since become fa- miliar to posterity , Bolingbroke occupied a distin- guished place a ...
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Seite 101 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us ( since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Seite 73 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Seite 74 - Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 200£ to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm...
Seite 275 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more ! Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight, The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right ! IX.
Seite 200 - ... employed, and must have had a thorough knowledge of his own state, and of the other states of Greece, of their dispositions, and of their interests relatively to one another, and relatively to their neighbours, to the Persians particularly, with whom he held a correspondence, not much to his honour...
Seite 350 - ... no peace could be safe or honourable to Great Britain or Europe, if Spain and the West Indies should be allotted to any branch of the house of Bourbon.
Seite 101 - A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield; The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Seite 101 - Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ! 10 The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar...
Seite 168 - But there have been lawyers that were orators, philosophers, historians: there have been Bacons and Clarendons. There will be none such any more, till in some better age true ambition, or the love of fame, prevails over avarice; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...
Seite 159 - ... all his might and 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...