Memoirs of the Whig Party During My Time, 1. kötet

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 320 oldal
 

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102. oldal - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
67. oldal - I do not know whether there is not some comfort in seeing that, while the French are doing all in their power to make the name of liberty odious to the world, the despots are conducting themselves so as to show that tyranny is worse.
270. oldal - Mr. Trotter, who soon afterwards thought fit to describe with great fervour the devotion it inspired, and to build upon it many conjectures of his own on the religious tenets and principles of Mr. Fox. Mr. Bouverie stood behind the curtain of the bed, and in a faint but audible voice read the service. Mr. Fox remained unusually quiet. Towards the end, Mrs. Fox knelt on the bed and joined his hands, which he seemed faintly to close with a smile of ineffable goodness, such as can never be forgotten...
180. oldal - MI t himself were declared to be ineligible. He observed with some truth, . and with the love of point which distinguished his conversation — —that the candour of ministers consisted in this, that deacons and priests had sat in Parliament for more than a century, but at last one got in who opposed the Minister of the day, and then Parliament determined that there never should be any deacons or priests admitted among them hereafter.
114. oldal - Downe) assured me that he had seen families returning peaceably from mass assailed, without provocation, by drunken troops and yeomanry, and the wives and daughters exposed to every species of indignity brutality, and outrage, from which neither his remonstrances, nor those of other Protestant gentlemen, could rescue them.
265. oldal - He took one or two airings, and in a few days he was removed to Chiswick. " The weather was fine, and the garden through which he was wheeled, and the pictures, and large apartments of that magnificent villa, seemed to refresh his spirits. A remark of Bacon, quoted in the 'Spectator...
215. oldal - ... &c., by a change of justices of the peace, whose conduct has been notoriously oppressive, I hope too by some arrangement about tithes, and, in fine, by giving you all the share in the Government of your country that we can give.
113. oldal - ... warfare, even in an enemy's country. Trials, if they must so be called, were carried on without number, under martial law. It often happened, that three officers composed the court, and that of the three, two were under age, and the third an officer of the yeomanry or militia, who had sworn, in his Orange lodge, eternal hatred to the people over whom he was thus constituted a judge. Floggings...
45. oldal - ... them with mutual honour. But as the objects of Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Fox were peace and reform to a greater or less extent, I thought that in the pursuit of those objects they must ultimately meet and assist each other. " I perceived there was not much reliance on either side on the other's professions or intentions, and I let both see that I thought so. I was diverted at observing that Lord Lansdowne throughout attributed the backwardness of the Whigs to Mr. Fox's jealousy of him, whereas Mr....
200. oldal - Pitt's lips at the brevity and antithesis of his sentences, his grotesque gesticulations, peculiar and almost foreign accent and arch articulation and countenance. As he proceeded, however, the sneers of his opponents were softened into courtesy and attention, and, at length, settled in delight and admiration. Mr Pitt beat time to the artificial but harmonious cadence of his periods...

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