Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and His Contemporaries: With Original Letters and Documents Now First Published, 2. kötetR. Bentley, 1852 |
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Administration Admiral Keppel Admiralty affairs America answer appear attend Bill brother Burke called colonies conduct Conway Court Crown DEAR LORD declared desire Dowdeswell Duke of Grafton Duke of Portland Duke of Richmond England favour feel following letter friends give Government Grenville honour hope House of Commons House of Lords humble servant idea Ireland King King's Lady Rockingham liberty London Lord Albemarle Lord Bute Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Granby Lord Keppel Lord Mayor Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne Lord Temple Lordship Majesty Majesty's MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM matter mean measures meeting ment Ministers Ministry morning motion obedient object obliged opinion opposition Parliament party persons petition Pitt political present principles proposed question received regard resignation sentiments Session Sir George Savile speech sure thought Thurlow tion to-morrow town Walpole Whigs Wilkes wish writes
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83. oldal - A wit said that, even at the levee, he bowed so low that you could see the tip of his hooked nose between his legs. He was in the habit of kneeling at the bedside of George III while transacting business. Now no man can argue on his knees. The same superstitious feeling which keeps him in that physical attitude will keep him in a corresponding mental attitude. He will not refute...
327. oldal - that there was a riot on Tower Hill. What would the keeper of his majesty's lions do ? Would he not fling open the dens of the wild beasts, and then address them thus ? ' My gentle lions, my humane bears, my tenderhearted hyenas, go forth ! But I exhort you, as you are Christians and members of civilized society, to take care not to hurt any man, woman, or child...
339. oldal - Thou hast what's left of me; For I am now so sunk from what I was, Thou find'st me at my lowest water-mark. The rivers that ran in, and raised my fortunes, Are all dried up, or take another course: What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.
163. oldal - The public has not been deceived by his conduct. My suspicions have been justified. His integrity has made him once more a poor and a private man ; he was dismissed for the vote he gave in favour of the right of election in the people.
224. oldal - ... as in the highest degree injurious to the welfare of that kingdom as well as of this. Its manifest tendency is to lessen the value of all landed property there, to put restrictions upon it unknown in any part of the British dominions, and as far as we can find without parallel in any civilized country. It leads directly to a separation of these kingdoms in interest and affection...
482. oldal - He died at a fortunate time, before he could feel, by a decisive proof, that virtue like his must be nourished from its own substance only, and cannot be assured of any external support. Let his successors, who daily behold this monument, consider that it was not built to entertain the eye, but to instruct the mind. Let them reflect that their conduct will make it their glory or their reproach. Let them feel that similarity of manners, not proximity of blood, gives them an interest in this statue....
166. oldal - Fox our host paid all that courtly homage, which he so well knew how to time, and where to apply ; to Beckford he did not observe the same attentions, but in the happiest flow of his raillery and wit combated this intrepid talker with admirable effect. It was an interlude truly comic and amusing. — Beckford loud, voluble, self-sufficient, and galled by hits which he could not parry, and probably did not expect, laid himself more and more open in the vehemence of his argument ; Dodington lolling...
169. oldal - I spoke what I thought last night, and I think the same this morning. Honorable members have betrayed their trust. I will add no epithets, because epithets only weaken. I will not say they have betrayed their country corruptly, flagitiously, and scandalously ; but I do say that they have betrayed their country, and I stand here to receive the punishment for having said so.
223. oldal - We have not hitherto considered such residence as an act of delinquency to be punished, or as a political evil to be corrected by the penal operation of a partial tax.
223. oldal - We have ever borne a cordial, though not an exclusive regard, to the true interest of Ireland, and to all its rights and liberties: to none of which we think our residence in Great Britain to be in the least prejudicial, but rather the means, in very many cases, of affording them a timely and effectual support. We cannot avoid considering this scheme as in the highest...