George Selwyn and His Contemporaries: With Memoirs and Notes, 3. kötetR. Bentley, 1844 "George Augustus Selwyn (11 August 1719?25 January 1791, age 71) was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Parliament of Great Britain. Selwyn spent 44 years in the House of Commons without being recorded as making a speech. He put his electoral interest, as the person who controlled both seats in Ludgershall and one in Gloucester, at the disposal of the King's ministers (whoever they might be), because he was financially dependent on obtaining (a total of three) sinecure offices and a pension, which offset his expenses of bribing the electorate, and his gambling debts."--Wikipedia. |
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... town , called a whist club , which meets every evening , of which I am the president for the first week , in order to regulate forms , & c . It is composed of the officers of the garrison ; and , what happens to be droll , the man , at ...
... town , called a whist club , which meets every evening , of which I am the president for the first week , in order to regulate forms , & c . It is composed of the officers of the garrison ; and , what happens to be droll , the man , at ...
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... town . It is in relation to Morpeth , and he knows that it is of serious consequence to me . We seem to be settled here for life . Ekins is a great comfort to me . Lady Carlisle and Caroline are both the better for this air , sharp as ...
... town . It is in relation to Morpeth , and he knows that it is of serious consequence to me . We seem to be settled here for life . Ekins is a great comfort to me . Lady Carlisle and Caroline are both the better for this air , sharp as ...
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... Towns- hend put his foot on the first step of preferment , he proposed taking me in his hand . In all these changes and resignations , can you give an old friend a lift into 4007. or 500l . a - year ? Then will I rejoice with you , and ...
... Towns- hend put his foot on the first step of preferment , he proposed taking me in his hand . In all these changes and resignations , can you give an old friend a lift into 4007. or 500l . a - year ? Then will I rejoice with you , and ...
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... town , he seemed very desirous to come early to Castle Howard , and it really appeared to be his own choice to come . Then , and not before , I told him that it would be particularly agreeable to me this year , as Lady Carlisle's ...
... town , he seemed very desirous to come early to Castle Howard , and it really appeared to be his own choice to come . Then , and not before , I told him that it would be particularly agreeable to me this year , as Lady Carlisle's ...
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... town , a fortified city , temples on high places , woods worthy of being each a metropolis of the Druids , vales connected to hills by other woods , the noblest lawn in the world fenced by half the horizon , and a mausoleum that would ...
... town , a fortified city , temples on high places , woods worthy of being each a metropolis of the Druids , vales connected to hills by other woods , the noblest lawn in the world fenced by half the horizon , and a mausoleum that would ...
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Abbé Adieu affair affectionately afterwards agreeable Almack's America antè ANTHONY MORRIS assure August Baron believe best compliments CARLISLE TO GEORGE Carlisle's Caroline Castle Howard celebrated Charles daughter DEAR GEORGE DEAR SIR desire DIANA BEAUCLERK died dined Duchess Duke EARL OF CARLISLE Ekins endeavour England father fear feel flatter fleet France French friendship GEORGE SELWYN give glad Gloucester Gower happy Hare hear honour hope Horace Walpole humble servant journey Lady Carlisle Lady Holland leave letter London Lord Carlisle Lord Gower Madame Madame du Deffand MARCHIONESS FAGNIANI married ment Mie Mie Monsieur morning never night obliged Ossory Paris Parliament perhaps pleasure Pray present received sincerely Sir John sister spirits sure talk tell thing Thomas thought tion to-day to-morrow town WARNER TO GEORGE weather William wish write yesterday
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317. oldal - STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me. and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! II.
216. oldal - For there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
194. oldal - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
84. oldal - Thus he continued giving his dying benedictions to all around him. On Monday morning a lucid interval gave some small hopes, but these vanished in the evening, and he continued dying, but with very little uneasiness, till Tuesday morning, August 22, when, between seven and eight o'clock, he expired, almost without a groan.
84. oldal - On the evening, when the symptoms of death came on, he said, ' I shall die ; but it will not be your fault.' When lord and lady Valentia came to see his lordship, he gave them his solemn benediction, and said, ' Be good, be virtuous, my lord ; you must come to this.
372. oldal - Men some to business, some to pleasure take ; But every woman is at heart a rake : Men some to quiet, some to public strife ; But every lady would be queen for life.
275. oldal - ... commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom, but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. Any state, my lords, is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort, and if we must fall, let us fall like men.
54. oldal - Roman emperor's determination, oderint dum metuant; he used no allurements of gentle language, but wished to compel rather than persuade. His style is copious without selection, and forcible without neatness ; he took the words that presented themselves ; his diction is coarse and impure ; and his sentences are unmeasured.
83. oldal - It is a folly, a keeping me in misery, now to attempt to prolong life;' yet he was easily persuaded for the satisfaction of others to do or take anything thought proper for him.
274. oldal - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy! Pressed down as I am by the hand of infirmity, I am little able to assist my country in this most perilous conjuncture; but, my Lords, while I have sense and memory, I will never consent to deprive the royal offspring of the House of Brunswick, the heirs of the Princess Sophia, of their fairest inheritance.