Coke of Norfolk and His Friends: The Life of Thomas William Coke, First Earl of Leicester of Holkham, Containing an Account of His Ancestry, Surroundings, Public Services & Private Friendships & Including Many Unpublished Letters from Noted Men of His Day, English & American, Volume 1John Lane Company, 1908 |
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Coke of Norfolk and His Friends: The Life of Thomas William Coke ..., Volume 1 Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling Affichage du livre entier - 1908 |
Coke of Norfolk and His Friends: The Life of Thomas William Coke ..., Volume 1 Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling Affichage du livre entier - 1908 |
Coke of Norfolk and His Friends: The Life of Thomas William Coke ..., Volume 1 Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling Affichage du livre entier - 1908 |
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Page 152 - The policy as well as the benevolence of Great Britain have thus far checked the extremes of war, when they tended to distress a people still considered as their fellow subjects, and to desolate a country shortly to become again a source of mutual advantage.
Page 313 - Make yourself easy, my dear friend ! Believe me the world will now soon be convinced that there not only is not, but never was, any ground for those reports, which of late have been so malevolently circulated.
Page 152 - But when that country [America] professes the unnatural design, not only of estranging herself from us, but of mortgaging herself and her resources to our enemies, the whole contest is changed: and the question is how far Great Britain may, by every means in her power, destroy or render useless, a connection contrived for her ruin, and the aggrandizement of France.
Page 44 - It is a melancholy thing to stand alone in one's own Country. I look around, not a house to be seen but my own. I am Giant, of Giant Castle, and have ate up all my neighbours — my nearest neighbour is the King of Denmark.
Page 402 - Coke] that a Treaty of separation and provision is on foot (if not already concluded) between His Royal Highness and the late Princess Fitz.
Page iv - For three things he would give God solemn thanks ; that he never gave his body to physic, nor his heart to cruelty, nor his hand to corruption.
Page 404 - Burgundy, champagne, l hock, and hermitage. The dessert was served by drawing the napkins and leaving the cloth on. Ices at top and bottom ; the rest of the dessert oranges, apples, ginger wafers, etc. Sweet wine was served with it. " After the cloth was drawn a plate of thin biscuits was placed at each end of the table and the wine sent round, viz. claret, port, Madeira, and sherry. Only one toast given —
Page 137 - At the mention of a Tory coming in, gentlemen, my blood chilled all over me from head to foot, and I came forward.
Page 183 - To this address his majesty returned the following answer : — " Gentlemen of the house of commons ! There are no objects nearer to my heart, than the ease, happiness, and prosperity of my people. You may be assured, that, in pursuance of your advice, I shall take such measures as shall appear to me to be most conducive to the restoration of harmony between Great Britain and the revolted colonies...
Page 346 - To more than Busby's skill in mood and tense, Add Bentley's learning and his sterling sense ; From Warburton take all the wit you find, But leave his grossness and his whims behind; Mix Churchill's vigour as in verse it flows, And knead it well with Johnston's manly prose; Sprinkle the whole with pepper from Voltaire, Strain off the scum, and—Fiat—Dr. Parr.