Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volumen2H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913 - 702 páginas |
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... George Grenville . Early in the session of 1764 , when the illegal and impolitic persecution of that worthless demagogue Wilkes had strongly excited the public mind , the town was amused by an anecdote , which we have seen in some ...
... George Grenville . Early in the session of 1764 , when the illegal and impolitic persecution of that worthless demagogue Wilkes had strongly excited the public mind , the town was amused by an anecdote , which we have seen in some ...
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... George Grenville , had been hostile to the Government , and yet had never cordially united with the other sections of the Opposition , with the little band which still followed the fortunes of Lord Chatham , or with the large and re ...
... George Grenville , had been hostile to the Government , and yet had never cordially united with the other sections of the Opposition , with the little band which still followed the fortunes of Lord Chatham , or with the large and re ...
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... George Grenville , had been scattered by the death of its chief ; and Lord Suffolk had led the greater part of it over to the ministerial benches . The ferment produced by the Middlesex election had gone down . Every faction must have ...
... George Grenville , had been scattered by the death of its chief ; and Lord Suffolk had led the greater part of it over to the ministerial benches . The ferment produced by the Middlesex election had gone down . Every faction must have ...
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... George Grenville , the treasurer of the navy . George Grenville was brother - in- law of Pitt , and had always been reckoned one of Pitt's personal and political friends . But it is difficult to conceive two men of talents and integrity ...
... George Grenville , the treasurer of the navy . George Grenville was brother - in- law of Pitt , and had always been reckoned one of Pitt's personal and political friends . But it is difficult to conceive two men of talents and integrity ...
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... George Grenville had been entrusted with the lead . The task was not , as yet , a very difficult one for Pitt did not think fit to raise the standard of opposition . His speeches at this time were distinguished , not only by that ...
... George Grenville had been entrusted with the lead . The task was not , as yet , a very difficult one for Pitt did not think fit to raise the standard of opposition . His speeches at this time were distinguished , not only by that ...
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Página 304 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 183 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Página 95 - The Son of man goeth, as it is written of him ; but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Página 539 - What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons offensive and defensive of the people of the Lower Ganges.
Página 608 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Página 128 - ... the eyes of all men were fixed upon him, as their patrite pater, and the pilot that must steer the vessel through the tempests and rocks which threatened it. And I am persuaded, his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do, good or hurt, than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time : for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Página 430 - The same courier who carried this " soothing letter," as Clive calls it, to the Nabob, carried to Mr. Watts a letter in the following terms : " Tell Meer Jaffier to fear nothing. I will join him with five thousand men who never turned their backs. Assure him I will march night and day to his assistance, and stand by him as long as I have a man left.
Página 623 - ... public to hear him was unbounded. His sparkling and highly finished declamation lasted two days ; but the Hall was crowded to suffocation during the whole time. It was said that fifty guineas had been paid for a single ticket. Sheridan, when he concluded, contrived, with a knowledge of stage-effect which his father might have envied, to sink back, as if exhausted, into the arms of Burke, who hugged him with the energy of generous admiration.
Página 295 - We have often thought that the motion of the public mind in our country resembles that of the sea when the tide is rising. Each successive wave rushes forward, breaks, and rolls back ; but the great flood is steadily coming in.
Página 424 - Then^was_committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole..