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... remained in office , was that of the most violent and unreserved courtier . He not only discharged his duty as a mere placeman , called upon by his situa- tion to defend the measures of administration , to cover their blunders , to urge ...
... remained in office , was that of the most violent and unreserved courtier . He not only discharged his duty as a mere placeman , called upon by his situa- tion to defend the measures of administration , to cover their blunders , to urge ...
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... remained , to be pleased with life ; participating in social converse with as much ease as if his latter moments were far distant . " Mr Fox wished to return to St Anne's Hill ; but , says Mr Trotter , " he grew daily worse ; his size ...
... remained , to be pleased with life ; participating in social converse with as much ease as if his latter moments were far distant . " Mr Fox wished to return to St Anne's Hill ; but , says Mr Trotter , " he grew daily worse ; his size ...
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... remained for ever in obscurity , had it not been for the intervention of a gentleman of the same county , with whom he luckily became acquainted . Sir Edward Turner of Ambroseden in Oxfordshire , being of an ancient family , and ...
... remained for ever in obscurity , had it not been for the intervention of a gentleman of the same county , with whom he luckily became acquainted . Sir Edward Turner of Ambroseden in Oxfordshire , being of an ancient family , and ...
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... remained at Paris does not appear ; but we learn that in the course of his travels he passed a whole summer in Holland , and another in Ireland . Some part of his leisure is also said to have been devoted to literary avoca- tions ; but ...
... remained at Paris does not appear ; but we learn that in the course of his travels he passed a whole summer in Holland , and another in Ireland . Some part of his leisure is also said to have been devoted to literary avoca- tions ; but ...
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... remained in their original force : the gov- ernor , who was , ex officio , president of the council , was the only British subject in that body . At a meeting of the council , in the capi- tal of the island in 1760 , while General ...
... remained in their original force : the gov- ernor , who was , ex officio , president of the council , was the only British subject in that body . At a meeting of the council , in the capi- tal of the island in 1760 , while General ...
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Página 127 - The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa hath long been considered as a trade of great inhumanity, and under its present encouragement, we have too much reason to fear will endanger the very existence of your Majesty's American dominions.
Página 297 - In speaking then of commodities, of their exchangeable value, and of the laws which regulate their relative prices, we mean always such commodities only as can be increased in quantity by the exertion of human industry, and on the production of which competition operates without restraint.
Página 243 - After sharing in the benefits of one revolution, I have been spared to be a witness to two other revolutions, both glorious. And now, methinks, I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading ; a general amendment beginning in human affairs ' the dominion of kings changed for the dominion of laws, and the dominion of priests giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience.
Página 102 - Though the different ships were very differently circumstanced, and bore unequal shares in the action, all have the merit of having done their utmost. After I had driven the San Nicholas on board the Josef, and left them, on their fire ceasing, to be taken possession of by somebody behind, they fell on board my good friend the commodore; and as they had not surrendered, he, in his own active person, at the head of his ship's company, boarded them, and drove the Spaniards from deck to deck at the...
Página 243 - I have lived to it, and I could almost say, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever, and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it ; I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible...
Página 179 - Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, " Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade...
Página 179 - Was this, then, the fate of that high-gifted man, The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall, The orator — dramatist — minstrel,— who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all...
Página 243 - I have been spared to be a witness to two other revolutions, both glorious ; and now methinks I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading, and a general amendment beginning in human affairs — the dominion of kings changed for the dominion of laws, and the dominion of priests giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience.
Página 27 - Mr. Fox united, in a most remarkable degree, the seemingly repugnant characters of the mildest of men, and the most vehement of orators. In private life he was gentle, modest, placable, kind, of simple manners, and so averse from parade and dogmatism, as to be not only unostentatious, but even somewhat inactive in conversation. His superiority was never...
Página 176 - I will fight for nobility, says the viscount, but my zeal would be much greater if I were made an earl. Rouse all the marquis within me, exclaims the earl, and the peerage never turned forth a more undaunted champion in its cause than I shall prove.