Lives of British Statesmen, 2. kötetLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 |
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11. oldal
... seemed altogether surprising , when their causes were not understood . Yet the order in which the successive incidents arose was natural , and the consequences scarcely avoidable . A short exposition of this remarkable progress will not ...
... seemed altogether surprising , when their causes were not understood . Yet the order in which the successive incidents arose was natural , and the consequences scarcely avoidable . A short exposition of this remarkable progress will not ...
20. oldal
... seemed on the verge of com- mencing , was for a while delayed by the spirit and the prudence of Elizabeth . Her concurrence with the undeviating frugality of Burleigh , enabled her to free the crown from its overwhelming en- cumbrances ...
... seemed on the verge of com- mencing , was for a while delayed by the spirit and the prudence of Elizabeth . Her concurrence with the undeviating frugality of Burleigh , enabled her to free the crown from its overwhelming en- cumbrances ...
26. oldal
... seemed to exalt her above her sex , and render her the appropriate possessor of the diadem . But the figure , the manners , the disposition of James were incompatible with sentiments of reverence . A thin person , of middle stature ...
... seemed to exalt her above her sex , and render her the appropriate possessor of the diadem . But the figure , the manners , the disposition of James were incompatible with sentiments of reverence . A thin person , of middle stature ...
41. oldal
... seemed to promise the most fortunate effects ; but James having pro- cured the relief of his present necessities , began , with a more scrupulous eye , to look after his prero- gative . The abuses which the Commons had un- dertaken to ...
... seemed to promise the most fortunate effects ; but James having pro- cured the relief of his present necessities , began , with a more scrupulous eye , to look after his prero- gative . The abuses which the Commons had un- dertaken to ...
48. oldal
... seemed to af- ford him a favourable opportunity . He artfully represented to Charles the advantage which he would derive from visiting Spain in person the delays of the match would be forthwith removed ; the generosity of the Spaniards ...
... seemed to af- ford him a favourable opportunity . He artfully represented to Charles the advantage which he would derive from visiting Spain in person the delays of the match would be forthwith removed ; the generosity of the Spaniards ...
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406. oldal - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp ; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
415. oldal - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
268. oldal - I have nigh done! One stroke will make my wife a widow, my dear children fatherless, deprive my poor servants of their indulgent master, and separate me from my affectionate brother and all my friends! But let God be to you and them all in all!
244. oldal - That, having tried the affections of his people, he was loose and absolved from all rules of government, and...
406. oldal - And therefore his death was no less congratulated on the one party, than it was condoled in the other. In a word, what was said of Cinna might well be applied to him ; " he had " a head to contrive, and a tongue to persuade, " and a hand to execute, any mischief.
353. oldal - ... of will, and humour, and folly, and knavery, and ambition, and malice, which make ? men cling inseparably together, till they have satisfaction in all their pretences, or till they are absolutely broken and subdued, which may always be more easily done than the other.
263. oldal - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
234. oldal - Star-Chamber censuring the breach and disobedience to those proclamations by very great fines and imprisonment ; so that any disrespect to any acts of state, or to the persons of statesmen, was in no time more penal, and those foundations of right by which men valued their security, to the apprehension and understanding of wise men, never more in danger to be destroyed.
415. oldal - ... those, and extirpate their families, who are friends to the old one. It was confidently reported, that in the council of officers it was more than once proposed "that there might be a general massacre of all the royal party, as the only expedient to secure the government...
414. oldal - He attempted those things which no good man durst have ventured on ; and achieved those in which none but a valiant and great man could have succeeded.