The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists, of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accession of Henry VIII. to the Present Time. Including a Complete History of England from that Area, Том 8Charles Dilly, 1791 |
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... afterwards relaxed upon that fub- ject , finding that power was not to be obtained without complying with the king's views and pre- judices as elector of Hanover . After having refigned his former places , and been some time out of ...
... afterwards relaxed upon that fub- ject , finding that power was not to be obtained without complying with the king's views and pre- judices as elector of Hanover . After having refigned his former places , and been some time out of ...
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... afterwards became firft lord of the treasury . He continued at the head of administration for many years ; and the public measures which were adopted during that period must be numbered among the most unwife , and the moft pernicious ...
... afterwards became firft lord of the treasury . He continued at the head of administration for many years ; and the public measures which were adopted during that period must be numbered among the most unwife , and the moft pernicious ...
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... not try an iffue with them ? If we fell afterwards , we fhould fall decently , and like men . " With regard to our power to carry on the war With 44 WILLIAM PITT , would openly fpeak his fentiments, although they ...
... not try an iffue with them ? If we fell afterwards , we fhould fall decently , and like men . " With regard to our power to carry on the war With 44 WILLIAM PITT , would openly fpeak his fentiments, although they ...
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... afterwards removed to the school of Stourbridge in Worcestershire . He after- wards continued two years at home with his father , and when he was in his nineteenth year he was entered a commoner of Pembroke college , Oxford . In his ...
... afterwards removed to the school of Stourbridge in Worcestershire . He after- wards continued two years at home with his father , and when he was in his nineteenth year he was entered a commoner of Pembroke college , Oxford . In his ...
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... afterwards married , and Mr. Taylor , who by his ingenuity in mechanical inventions , and his fuc- cels in trade , acquired a large fortune . But the advantage of being near his friend Hector is faid to have been his chief inducement ...
... afterwards married , and Mr. Taylor , who by his ingenuity in mechanical inventions , and his fuc- cels in trade , acquired a large fortune . But the advantage of being near his friend Hector is faid to have been his chief inducement ...
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Стр. 118 - In smoky ruins sunk they lie. The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then smites his breast, and curses life.
Стр. 199 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work...
Стр. 102 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Стр. 37 - That God and nature put into our hands.' I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature ; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian...
Стр. 38 - Judges to interpose the purity of their ermine, to save us from this pollution. I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution.
Стр. 25 - This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment ! It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail; cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Стр. 66 - ... the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order: correct, nay stern in his taste; hard to please, and easily offended, impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Стр. 97 - Thou great Infallible, forbear to roar, Thy bulls and errors are rever'd no more. When doctrines meet with gen'ral approbation, It is not Heresy, but Reformation.
Стр. 29 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Стр. 2 - Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.