Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ... Ed. with Introduction, Notes and Index by F. C. Montague, Volume 2Methuen & Company, 1903 |
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... Council , an actor in Parlia- ment ; and even in private society he could not lay aside his theatrical tones and attitudes . We know that one of the most distinguished of his partisans often complained that he could never obtain ...
... Council , an actor in Parlia- ment ; and even in private society he could not lay aside his theatrical tones and attitudes . We know that one of the most distinguished of his partisans often complained that he could never obtain ...
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... Council and First Lord of the Treasury . He promoted the South Sea Act and was made responsible by the public for the consequences . Although acquitted by a vote of the House of Commons , he had to resign . died very soon afterwards . 2 ...
... Council and First Lord of the Treasury . He promoted the South Sea Act and was made responsible by the public for the consequences . Although acquitted by a vote of the House of Commons , he had to resign . died very soon afterwards . 2 ...
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... Council in 1720 and Secretary of State after Stanhope's death in 1721. He finally retired in 1730 and employed his leisure in agricultural improvements , especially the introduction of the turnip . His second wife was Dorothy , sister ...
... Council in 1720 and Secretary of State after Stanhope's death in 1721. He finally retired in 1730 and employed his leisure in agricultural improvements , especially the introduction of the turnip . His second wife was Dorothy , sister ...
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... Council , we suppose after his daily half - gallon of Burgundy , " always has quarrelled , and always will quarrel , from generation to generation . " He should have known something of the matter ; for he had been a favourite with three ...
... Council , we suppose after his daily half - gallon of Burgundy , " always has quarrelled , and always will quarrel , from generation to generation . " He should have known something of the matter ; for he had been a favourite with three ...
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... Council met . The free- dom of the city was voted to Pitt . All the greatest corporate towns followed the example . " For some weeks , " says Walpole , " it rained gold boxes . " 1 This was the turning point of Pitt's life . It might ...
... Council met . The free- dom of the city was voted to Pitt . All the greatest corporate towns followed the example . " For some weeks , " says Walpole , " it rained gold boxes . " 1 This was the turning point of Pitt's life . It might ...
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Pagina 236 - 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 236 - 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 123 - These friendships are exposed to no danger from the occurrences by which other attachments are weakened or dissolved. Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...
Pagina 472 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
Pagina 428 - The battle commenced with a cannonade in which the artillery of the Nabob did scarcely any execution, while the few field-pieces of the English produced great effect. Several of the most distinguished officers in Surajah Dowlah's service fell. Disorder began to spread through his ranks. His own terror increased every moment. One of the conspirators urged on him the expediency of retreating. The insidious advice, agreeing as it did with what his own terror suggested, was readily received.
Pagina 420 - Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Pagina 473 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Pagina 402 - Aurungzebe that this wild clan of plunderers first descended from their mountains ; and soon after his death, every corner of his wide empire learned to tremble at the mighty name of the Mahrattas. Many fertile viceroyalties were entirely subdued by them. Their dominions stretched across the peninsula from sea to sea. Mahratta captains reigned at Poonah, at Gualior, in Guzerat, in Berar, and in Tanjore.
Pagina 419 - 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.
Pagina 421 - But these things, which, after the lapse of more than eighty years, cannot be told or read without horror, awakened neither remorse nor pity in the bosom of the savage Nabob. He inflicted no punishment on the murderers. He showed no tenderness to the survivors.