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... original picture by Ramsay . It should be mentioned that the late esteemed soldier and statesman , Henry Viscount Hardinge , was the grandson of the scholar . 6 THE RIGHT HON . EDWARD WESTON . APPARENTLY no NICHOLAS HARDINGE . 5.
... original picture by Ramsay . It should be mentioned that the late esteemed soldier and statesman , Henry Viscount Hardinge , was the grandson of the scholar . 6 THE RIGHT HON . EDWARD WESTON . APPARENTLY no NICHOLAS HARDINGE . 5.
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... statesmen of his day , Mr. Townshend , it is said , but for his diffidence and the amiable sensibility of his nature , might have been selected to fill high office in the State . As it was , the only appointment which he seems to have ...
... statesmen of his day , Mr. Townshend , it is said , but for his diffidence and the amiable sensibility of his nature , might have been selected to fill high office in the State . As it was , the only appointment which he seems to have ...
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... statesmen , " writes Archdeacon Coxe , " were younger brothers nearly of the same age ; both were educated at Eton ; both were distinguished for classical knowledge ; both commenced their Par- liamentary career at the same period , and ...
... statesmen , " writes Archdeacon Coxe , " were younger brothers nearly of the same age ; both were educated at Eton ; both were distinguished for classical knowledge ; both commenced their Par- liamentary career at the same period , and ...
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... statesman of his age , he had apparently no great objection to benefit by the corrupt practices of others , he shrank from the risk of forfeiting his reputation for spotlessness by directly resorting to those expedients himself . Fox ...
... statesman of his age , he had apparently no great objection to benefit by the corrupt practices of others , he shrank from the risk of forfeiting his reputation for spotlessness by directly resorting to those expedients himself . Fox ...
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... statesman frequently retired . It william ; Henry third Duke of Buccleuch ; Charles James Fox ; James first Duke of Leinster ; Henry Thomas second Earl of Ilchester ; Anthony Morris Storer , and others . 1 Charles James Fox , Lord ...
... statesman frequently retired . It william ; Henry third Duke of Buccleuch ; Charles James Fox ; James first Duke of Leinster ; Henry Thomas second Earl of Ilchester ; Anthony Morris Storer , and others . 1 Charles James Fox , Lord ...
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Página 79 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Página 257 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Página 134 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 191 - you shall be my confessor: when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christiau religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Página 77 - Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at and concerned for his continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had had the advantage of a liberal education, and of being admitted into good company...
Página 309 - I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages; to enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition; a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour...
Página 157 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me ; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy.
Página 54 - And mariners, though shipwrecked, dread to land. Here reign the blustering North, and blighting East, No tree is heard to whisper, bird to sing; Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast, Art he invokes new horrors still to bring.
Página 82 - On this day the most melancholy sun I had ever beheld arose, and found me awake at my house at Fordhook. By the light of this sun I was, in my own opinion, last to behold and take leave of some of those creatures on whom I doted with a mother-like fondness, guided by nature and passion, and uncured and unhardened by all the doctrine of that philosophical school where I had learned to bear pains and to despise death.
Página 156 - Within his large wig little more was to be seen than his aquiline nose, and his penetrating eye. He looked like a dying man ; yet never was seen a figure of more dignity ; he appeared like a being of a superior species.