Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III. to which is Added Remarks on Party, and an Appendix, Band 2Baudry, 1839 - 4 Seiten |
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Seite 216 - An English Whig, who asserts the reality of the popish plot, an Irish Catholic, who denies the massacre in 1641, and a Scotch Jacobite, who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary, must be considered as men beyond the reach of argument or reason, and must be left to their prejudices.
Seite 74 - ... closest reasoning, the most luminous statement, the most persuasive display of all the motives that could influence, and of all the details that could enlighten his audience. Often a different strain was heard, and it was declamatory and vehement — or pity was to be moved, and its pathos was touching as it was simple — or, above all, an adversary sunk in baseness, or covered with crimes, was to be punished or to be destroyed, and a storm of the most terrible invective raged, with all the...
Seite 16 - Give them," said he in 1810, and in a far higher strain of eloquence, "a corrupt House of Lords; give them a venal House of Commons ; give them a tyrannical Prince ; give them a truckling Court, — and let me but have an unfettered press ; I will defy them to encroach a hair's-breadth upon the liberties of England...
Seite 129 - One of the most remarkable men certainly of our times as a politician, or of any age as a philosopher was Franklin ; who also stands alone in combining together these two characters, the greatest that man can sustain...
Seite 14 - ... combine anew their creations, than to bring forth original productions; a fierce, dauntless spirit of attack; a familiarity, acquired from his dramatic studies, with the feelings of the heart and the ways to touch its chords; a facility of epigram and point, the yet more direct gift of the same theatrical apprenticeship; an excellent manner, not unconnected with that experience; and a depth of voice which perfectly suited the tone of his declamation, be it invective, or be it descriptive, or...
Seite 47 - He upheld the liberty of the press against the one; he defended the rights of the people against both combined to destroy them. If there be yet amongst us the power of freely discussing the acts of our rulers ; if there be yet the privilege of meeting for the promotion of needful reforms; if he who desires wholesome changes in our Constitution be still...
Seite 12 - With an ample share of literary and dramatic reputation, but not certainly of the kind most auspicious for a statesman; with the most slender provision of knowledge at all likely to be useful in political affairs ; with a position by birth and profession little suited to command the respect of the most aristocratic country in Europe — the son of an actor, the manager himself of a theatre — he came into that Parliament which was enlightened by the vast and various knowledge, as well as fortified...
Seite 107 - Romilly, and doubt that, as he only valued his own success and his own powers, in the belief that they might conduce to the good of mankind, so each augmentation of his authority, each step of his progress, must have been attended with some triumph in the cause of humanity and justice. True, he would at length, in the course of nature, have ceased to live ; but then the bigot would have ceased to persecute — the despot to vex — the desolate poor to suffer — the slave to groan and tremble —...
Seite 43 - ... with the tribunal, on which the whole fate of the cause may turn. No man made fewer mistakes, none left so few advantages unimproved ; before none was it so dangerous for an adversary to slumber and be off his guard, for he was ever broad awake himself, and was as adventurous as he was skilful, and as apt to take advantage of any the least opening, as he was cautious to leave none in his own battle. But to all these qualities he joined that fire, that spirit, that courage, which gave vigour and...
Seite 14 - ... was skilfully introduced and happily applied ; and it was well mingled also with humour, occasionally descending to farce. How little it was the inspiration of the moment all men were aware who knew his habits ; but a singular proof of this was presented by Mr. Moore when he came to write his life; for we there find given to the world...