History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Band 2B. Tauchnitz, 1853 |
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Band 6 Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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66 CHAP affairs afterwards answer appears Appendix Atterbury Bill Bishop Bishop Atterbury Bolingbroke Bourbon Brodrick Carteret Chesterfield Church Court Coxe's Walpole death declared Duchess of Kendal Duke of Newcastle Duke of Wharton Earl Emperor England English favour Fleury France friends George Gibraltar Government Hanover Hist honour hopes Horace Walpole House of Commons House of Lords Inverness Jacobites James James's King King's Lady less letter Lockhart Lord Midleton Lord Townshend Madame de Prie Madrid Majesty Memoirs ment METHO Minister nation never obtained Opposition Paris Parliament party passed persons Pope Pretender Prince proposed Protestant Pulteney Queen received resentment restoration Ripperda says scarcely Schaub scheme Secretary seems sent Sir Robert Sir William Wyndham South Sea South Sea Company Spain Spanish speech spirit Sunderland Swift thing thought tion Tories treaty Treaty of Hanover TURE Vienna Walpole's Wesley Whigs William Stanhope writes Wyndham
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Seite 220 - If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine— a friend— or being dry— Or lest we should be, by and by— Or any other reason why!
Seite 344 - ... their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans ; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese ; but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England.
Seite 267 - In that country suppose him continually contracting friendships and familiarities with the ambassadors of those princes who at the time happen to be most at enmity with his own ; and if, at any time, it should happen to be for the interest of any of those foreign ministers to have a secret...
Seite 344 - I shall say but little at present of their Learning, which for many Ages hath flourished in all its Branches among them : But their manner of Writing is very peculiar, being neither from the Left to the Right, like the Europeans ; nor from the Right to the Left, like the Arabians ; nor from up to down, like the Chinese , nor from down to up, like the Cascagians ; but aslant from one Corner of the Paper to the other, like Ladies in England.
Seite 323 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Seite 97 - ... without suffering me to see them before he was paid, or giving me good security to restore my money for those that were lean, or shorn, or scabby, I would be none of his customer. I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he showed as a pattern to encourage purchasers: and this is directly the case in point with Mr. Wood's assay.
Seite 96 - ... in good gold and silver, must be given for trash, that will not be worth above eight or nine thousand pounds real value.
Seite 415 - Can any verbal distinctions, any evasions whatever, possibly explain away this public infamy ? To whom would we disguise it ? To ourselves and to the nation. I wish we could hide it from the eyes of every court in Europe. They see...
Seite 431 - Wednesday, on which day the ambassador's coach and six was to go down to meet his brother. My Lord put on a livery, and went down in the retinue, without the least suspicion, to Dover, where Mr. Mitchell (which was the name of the ambassador's servant) hired a small vessel, and immediately set sail for Calais. The passage was so remarkably short, that the captain threw out this reflection, that the wind could not have served better if his passengers had been flying for their lives, little thinking...
Seite 17 - For recovery of Seamen's Wages — For extracting of Silver from Lead — For the transmuting of Quicksilver into a malleable and fine Metal — For making of Iron with Pit-coal — For importing a Number of large Jack Asses from Spain — For trading in Human Hair — For fatting of Hogs — For a Wheel of Perpetual Motion." But the most strange of all, perhaps, was " For an Undertaking which shall in due time be revealed.