Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from ReviewsLongmans, Green, and Company [Spottiswoode and Company, Printers], 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... received the Bill back again with a threatening intimation that it must pass . " The House 1 ' He ( Pitt ) and Lord Temple have declared against the whole Cabinet Council . Why , that they have done so before now , and yet have acted ...
... received the Bill back again with a threatening intimation that it must pass . " The House 1 ' He ( Pitt ) and Lord Temple have declared against the whole Cabinet Council . Why , that they have done so before now , and yet have acted ...
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... received and expected by members from the Minister whose measure they supported , apparently without any consciousness of in- famy , very much in the same manner as the voters in certain boroughs received head - money from the candidate ...
... received and expected by members from the Minister whose measure they supported , apparently without any consciousness of in- famy , very much in the same manner as the voters in certain boroughs received head - money from the candidate ...
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... received gratifications and which have not ? And who is to have the disposal of places ? ' ' I myself , ' said his Grace . ' How then am I to manage the House of Commons ? ' ' Oh , let the members of the House of Commons come to me ...
... received gratifications and which have not ? And who is to have the disposal of places ? ' ' I myself , ' said his Grace . ' How then am I to manage the House of Commons ? ' ' Oh , let the members of the House of Commons come to me ...
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... received their training , their baptism of debate , in the House of Commons , and left that assembly with foreboding or regret . ' When I have turned out Walpole , ' said Pulteney , ' I will retire into that hospital for invalids , the ...
... received their training , their baptism of debate , in the House of Commons , and left that assembly with foreboding or regret . ' When I have turned out Walpole , ' said Pulteney , ' I will retire into that hospital for invalids , the ...
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... received by King William was the opposition to the grant to the Earl of Portland in 1695 of sundry lordships with the royalties in Wales , forming a large proportion of the demesnes of the Principality . When this affair was brought ...
... received by King William was the opposition to the grant to the Earl of Portland in 1695 of sundry lordships with the royalties in Wales , forming a large proportion of the demesnes of the Principality . When this affair was brought ...
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Página 13 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, 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.
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Página 1 - 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 tesselated pavement without cement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...