Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV, 7. kötetJohn Murray, 1857 - 405 oldal |
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Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of ..., 4. kötet John Campbell Campbell Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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342. oldal - And that there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works — he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy.
274. oldal - I have not money enough for gunpowder," are well known. These difficulties were, however, overcome, and on the recommendation of a committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the...
51. oldal - I met him (said he) at Lord Clare's house' in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.
277. oldal - the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
121. oldal - Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great consideration. It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future.
191. oldal - ... to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for that reason only inhumanly murdered by the king's troops at or near Lexington and Concord, in the province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April; which sum being immediately collected, it was thereupon resolved that Mr.
302. oldal - This man now has been ten years about town, and has made nothing of it;" meaning as a companion. 2 He said to me, " I never heard any thing from him in company that was at all striking; and depend upon it, Sir, it is when you come close to a man in conversation, that you discover what his real abilities are: to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack. Now, I honour Thurlow, Sir ; Thurlow is a fine fellow ; he fairly puts his mind to yours.
16. oldal - THE power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished...
120. oldal - This nobleman, I say, is a prodigy ; for at eighty-five he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty ; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others beyond whatever I knew ; added to which, a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling.
120. oldal - Swifts have sung and spoken so much: I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast ; but have survived them ; and, despairing ever to find their equals, it is some years since I have...