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201. oldal - in a very different light from that in which both he and they were regarded by mankind. 'I know not,' he remarked, a short time before his death, 'what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
292. oldal - his colleague being Mr. George Cooke. In the speech in which Mr. Burke so happily described the general composition of this ministry, he thus specially alludes to the joint appointment of Lord North and Mr. Cooke: — ' I venture to say, it did so happen that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each
101. oldal - under the provisions of an act of parliament. This board is composed of the speaker of the House of Commons, the chancellor of the exchequer, the master of the rolls, the lord-chief-baron of the Court of Exchequer, the accountant-general of the Court of Chancery, and the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank of England. The greater part of
140. oldal - but if the firing is continued on the part of Den mark, he must set on fire all the prizes he has taken, without having the power of saving the men who have so nobly defended them. The brave Danes are the brothers,
3. oldal - that some course might be thought of to improve this meeting to a more regular way of debating things; and that, according to the manner in other countries, where there were voluntary associations of men into academies for the advancement of various parts of learning, they might do something answerable here for the promoting of experimental philosophy.
293. oldal - He had a drunken stupid groom, who used to provoke him, and who, from this uncommon circumstance, was called by the children "the man that puts papa in a passion ;" and I think he continued all his life putting papa in a passion, and being forgiven, for I believe he died in his service.
201. oldal - he desired I would represent to you and beg your pardon, he being very much ashamed he should be so rude to a person for whom he hath so great an honour. He is now very well, and though I fear he is under some degree of melancholy, yet I think there is no reason to suspect it
139. oldal - and Calvi ; had assisted in capturing seven sail of the line, six frigates, four corvettes, and eleven privateers, taken fifty merchant vessels, and been in action 120 times; lost his right eye and arm, and received other severe
60. oldal - boldness, ardour, and sublimity. His prophecy too forms a regular and perfect poem ; the exordium is not merely magnificent, it is truly majestic; the preparation for the destruction of Nineveh, and the description of its downfall and desolation, are expressed in the most vivid colours, and are bold and luminous in the highest degree.
194. oldal - who had then started a second paper, called the ' Observator,' first exercised his authority as licenser of the press, by procuring to be issued a ' proclamation for suppressing the printing and publishing unlicensed news-books and pamphlets of news, because it has become a common practice for