Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853 |
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... never before published ; and an Account of the principal Events and Persons of his Time , connected with his Life , Sentiments , and Administration . By the REV . FRANCIS THACKERAY , A. M. 2 vols . 4to . London : 1827 . THOUGH Several ...
... never before published ; and an Account of the principal Events and Persons of his Time , connected with his Life , Sentiments , and Administration . By the REV . FRANCIS THACKERAY , A. M. 2 vols . 4to . London : 1827 . THOUGH Several ...
Pagina 19
... never have attained to high excellence . He spoke without premeditation ; but his speech followed the course of his own thoughts , and not the course of the previous discussion . He could , indeed , treasure up in his memory some ...
... never have attained to high excellence . He spoke without premeditation ; but his speech followed the course of his own thoughts , and not the course of the previous discussion . He could , indeed , treasure up in his memory some ...
Pagina 20
... never had an oppor- tunity of refusing anything . The truth is , that it was not Walpole's practice to buy off enemies . Mr. Burke truly says , in the Appeal to the Old Whigs , that Walpole gained very few over from the Opposi- tion ...
... never had an oppor- tunity of refusing anything . The truth is , that it was not Walpole's practice to buy off enemies . Mr. Burke truly says , in the Appeal to the Old Whigs , that Walpole gained very few over from the Opposi- tion ...
Pagina 27
... never blazed into sudden flashes of dazzling brilliancy ; but its clear , placid , and mellow splendour was never for an instant overclouded . Intellectually he was , we believe , fully equal to Pitt ; but he was deficient in the moral ...
... never blazed into sudden flashes of dazzling brilliancy ; but its clear , placid , and mellow splendour was never for an instant overclouded . Intellectually he was , we believe , fully equal to Pitt ; but he was deficient in the moral ...
Pagina 28
... never exposed his fortunes or his fame to any risk which he could avoid . At one time he might , in all probability , have been Prime Minister . But the object of his wishes was the judicial bench . The situation of Chief Jus- tice ...
... never exposed his fortunes or his fame to any risk which he could avoid . At one time he might , in all probability , have been Prime Minister . But the object of his wishes was the judicial bench . The situation of Chief Jus- tice ...
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absurd admiration admit ancient apostolical succession appeared army Bacon believe Bengal body Catholic century character Church of England Church of Rome Cicero Clive considered Council Court declared defence doctrines Duke Dupleix effect eloquence eminent empire employed enemies English Essex Europe evil favour feeling fortune France French Gladstone Grand Pensionary honour House of Commons human hundred India Jesuit judge King learning liberty Long Parliament Lord means Meer Jaffier ment mind ministers Montagu moral Nabob nation nature never Newcastle Novum Organum Omichund opinion Parliament party persecution person philosophy Pitt Plato political Prince principles produced Protestant Protestantism question reason reform religion religious respect Revolution scarcely seems Shaftesbury Sir James Mackintosh sovereign spirit statesman succession talents temper Temple thing thought tion took Tories truth Walpole Whigs whole
Populaire passages
Pagina 91 - 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?
Pagina 266 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Pagina 374 - THE author of this volume is a young man of unblemished character, and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories who follow, reluctantly and mutinously, a leader whose experience and eloquence are indispensable to them, but whose cautious temper and moderate opinions they abhor.
Pagina 111 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Pagina 488 - ... and for the last time, his dauntless spirit during a few hours shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting, and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority. Long afterwards, he said that he had never called but one council of war, and that if he had taken the advice of that council, the British would never have been masters of Bengal. But scarcely had the meeting broken up, when he was himself again.
Pagina 42 - My Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Pagina 266 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 266 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them...
Pagina 171 - it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your lordship than this, that I may safely be that to you now which I was truly before.
Pagina 248 - He lived in an age in which disputes on the most subtle points of divinity excited an intense interest throughout Europe ; and nowhere more than in England. He was placed in the very thick of the conflict. He was in power at the time of the Synod of Dort, and must for months have been daily deafened with talk about election, reprobation, and final perseverance. Yet we do not remember a line in his works from which it can be inferred that he was either a Calvinist or an Arminian. While the world was...