Some Verdicts of History ReviewedJohn Murray, 1887 - 416 Seiten |
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... delightful , and the parent of ideas so fruitful , should , as cannot be denied , exercise as a whole a repulsion which warns off its confines all but resolute students ; why it should induce even them to look The Eighteenth Century . 5.
... delightful , and the parent of ideas so fruitful , should , as cannot be denied , exercise as a whole a repulsion which warns off its confines all but resolute students ; why it should induce even them to look The Eighteenth Century . 5.
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... whole , as a single chapter of national life and history , in its proper perspective , and with its due allowance of light and shade , it ceases to be tiresome and monotonous . The eighteenth century surveyed in its unity will be seen ...
... whole , as a single chapter of national life and history , in its proper perspective , and with its due allowance of light and shade , it ceases to be tiresome and monotonous . The eighteenth century surveyed in its unity will be seen ...
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... whole , in its letters , its philosophy , its divinity , its manners , and its politics , knows how completely they illustrate each other , and that all , considered together , make a mirror of national life in which may be discerned ...
... whole , in its letters , its philosophy , its divinity , its manners , and its politics , knows how completely they illustrate each other , and that all , considered together , make a mirror of national life in which may be discerned ...
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... whole of its trade . The House of Com- mons was made up half of placemen . For a member to be inaccessible to a bribe was virtue so extraordinary that the repute of the singularity weighed down the odium of a life passed in concerting ...
... whole of its trade . The House of Com- mons was made up half of placemen . For a member to be inaccessible to a bribe was virtue so extraordinary that the repute of the singularity weighed down the odium of a life passed in concerting ...
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... whole of the nation , and inspired courage to interfere with class interests . In the seventeenth , as in earlier centuries , different classes had allied to secure the nation's constitutional rights against the Crown and Court ; there ...
... whole of the nation , and inspired courage to interfere with class interests . In the seventeenth , as in earlier centuries , different classes had allied to secure the nation's constitutional rights against the Crown and Court ; there ...
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Abraham Cowley admiration American appeared Bolingbroke Botley British Cabinet career character Charles chief Cobbett colonies common Constitution corruption Court courtiers Cowley Cowley's eighteenth century enemies England English fame favour France Franklin French friends genius George Government Governor Hanoverian Harley honour Horace Walpole House House of Lords indignation interest intrigues Jacobite jealousy John John's King Kit-Cat Club land leader Leicester House letters liberty literary literature Lord Marlborough Matthew Prior ment Minister moral nation negotiations neighbours never once Opposition Parliament Parliamentary party patriotism peace peace of Utrecht period Pitt poem poet political politicians popular Prince principles Prior Pulteney Pulteney's Queen rank Register reign Revolution Robert Walpole royal Salem seems society Sovereign spirit statesman Swift thought tion Tories treaty of Hanover Virginia Walpole Walpole's Whig Whiggism whole William William Cobbett writes Wyndham
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Seite 259 - House approved the nomination, and provided the goods for the present, though they did not much like treating out of the provinces ; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle of June. In our way thither, I projected and drew a plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for defence and other important general purposes.
Seite 240 - A patriot, sir ! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them within the four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Seite 282 - I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.
Seite 281 - You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! — You and I were long Friends: — You are now my Enemy, — and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 297 - Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others...
Seite 298 - I have never entered into any controversy in defence of my philosophical opinions. I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them ; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected.
Seite 30 - His house was perfectly of the old fashion, in the midst of a large park well stocked with deer, and near the house rabbits to serve his kitchen, many...
Seite 273 - A variety of others have been made since of different sizes ; some to be set in the lids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon...
Seite 284 - Some books against Deism fell into my hands ; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations ; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
Seite 289 - I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.