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... tion . Bolingbroke , who was the ablest and the most vehe- ment of those who raised the clamour against corruption , had no better remedy to propose than that the Royal prerogative should be strengthened . The remedy would no doubt have ...
... tion . Bolingbroke , who was the ablest and the most vehe- ment of those who raised the clamour against corruption , had no better remedy to propose than that the Royal prerogative should be strengthened . The remedy would no doubt have ...
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... tion , and had acquired considerable influence over the mind of George the First . The other Ministers could speak no German . The King could speak no English . All the com- munication that Walpole held with his master was in very bad ...
... tion , and had acquired considerable influence over the mind of George the First . The other Ministers could speak no German . The King could speak no English . All the com- munication that Walpole held with his master was in very bad ...
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... tion , he maintained that no peace ought to be made with Spain , till she should formally renounce the right of search . He was in the right when , being in office , he silently acquiesced in a treaty by which Spain did not renounce the ...
... tion , he maintained that no peace ought to be made with Spain , till she should formally renounce the right of search . He was in the right when , being in office , he silently acquiesced in a treaty by which Spain did not renounce the ...
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... tion of 1734 , his elder brother Thomas was chosen both for Old Sarum and for Oakhampton . When Parliament met in 1735 , Thomas made his election to serve for Oakhampton , and William was returned for Old Sarum . Walpole had now been ...
... tion of 1734 , his elder brother Thomas was chosen both for Old Sarum and for Oakhampton . When Parliament met in 1735 , Thomas made his election to serve for Oakhampton , and William was returned for Old Sarum . Walpole had now been ...
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... tion and character diminished the dread which their talents might have inspired . To this last class belonged Fox , who was too poor to live without office ; Sir William Yonge , of whom Walpole himself said , that nothing but such parts ...
... tion and character diminished the dread which their talents might have inspired . To this last class belonged Fox , who was too poor to live without office ; Sir William Yonge , of whom Walpole himself said , that nothing but such parts ...
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Página 419 - had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still flourished in Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand ou a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 593 - a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom,
Página 592 - of exercising tyranny over the lord of the holy city of Benares, and over the ladies of the princely house of Oude. The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the
Página 147 - and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." From the mention which is made of judges, it would seem that Jonson had heard Bacon only at the Bar. Indeed we imagine that the House of Commons was then almost
Página 202 - fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human
Página 72 - Revolution in England, in 1688. Comprising a View of the Reign of James the Second, from his Accession to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange, by the late Right Honourable Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH ; and completed to the Settlement of the Crown, by the Editor. To
Página 381 - on this occasion to use the services of an interpreter ; for it is remarkable that, long as he resided in India, intimately acquainted as he was with Indian politics and with the Indian character, and adored as he was by his Indian soldiery, he never learned to express himself with facility in VOL. VI.
Página 381 - was instantly performed. Clive led the new Nabob to the seat of honour, placed him on it, presented to him, after the immemorial fashion of the East, an offering of gold, and then, turning to the natives who filled the hall, congratulated them on the good fortune which had freed them from a tyrant. He was
Página 529 - The whole country was in a blaze. More than a hundred thousand people fled from their homes to pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an English and a Christian government had, for shameful lucre, sold their substance, and their blood,
Página 624 - of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom