Lord Chatham: His Early Life and ConnectionsHarper & brothers, 1910 - 480 pages An anthology of " ... rhymes and songs to sing and play, stories to tell and riddles to guess." |
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Lord Chatham: His Early Life and Connections Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery Affichage du livre entier - 1910 |
Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery Affichage du livre entier - 1910 |
Lord Chatham: His Early Life and Connections Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery Affichage du livre entier - 1910 |
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Page 395 - That in case the crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter come to any person not being a native of this kingdom of England this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the crown of England without the consent of Parliament.
Page 154 - This convention, Sir, I think from my soul, is nothing but a stipulation for national ignominy ; an illusory expedient, to baffle the resentment of the nation; a truce without a suspension of hostilities on the part of Spain; on the part of England a suspension: As to Georgia, of the first law of nature, self-preservation and selfdefence...
Page 449 - His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with such energy of diction and...
Page 173 - ... if any attack had been designed. They have, therefore, no other claim to be paid than that they left their own country for a place of greater security.
Page 446 - He was haughty, imperious, impatient of contradiction, and overbearing ; qualities which too often accompany, but always clog, great ones. He had manners and address ; but one might discern through them too great a consciousness of his own superior talents. He was a most agreeable and lively companion in social life ; and had such a versatility of wit, that he could adapt it to all sorts of conversation. He had also a most happy turn to poetry, but he seldom indulged, and seldom avowed it.
Page 411 - Cela est incontestable , lui répliqua-t-on; mais dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.
Page 327 - ... on the topics of bribery and corruption. Pitt, who was in the gallery, started, and came down with impetuosity, and with all his former fire, said 'He had asked what occasioned such an uproar; lamented to hear a laugh on such a subject as bribery! Did we try within the house to diminish our own dignity, when such attacks were made upon it from without? that it was almost lost! that it wanted support! that it had long been vanishing! scarce possible to recover it!
Page 327 - Unless you will degenerate into a little assembly, serving no other purpose than to register the arbitrary edicts of one too powerful subject.
Page 412 - Even the docile allegiance of the House of Commons can scarcely have allayed the veteran's rising anxiety. ' This was the year of the worst administration that I have seen in England,' says Walpole, though he was the close friend of Fox, 'for now Newcastle's incapacity was allowed full play.' Fox indeed found that he was not admitted to real confidence or to the counsels of Newcastle and Hardwicke. He was therefore in a state of swelling discontent, ready to break away at the first opportunity. He...
Page 27 - I write this to pay my duty to you, and to lett you know that I am well. I hope you and my mama have found a great benefit from the Bath, and it would be a very great satisfaction to me, to hear how you do ; I was in hopes of an answer to my last letter, to have heard how you both did, and how I should direct my letters to you ; for not knowing how to direct my letters, has hindered me writing to you, my time has been pretty much taken up...