The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Band 4George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton & Company, 1863 |
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... passed in camps , and learning the rudiments of his profession , not in courts or His oratory has few of those graces which recommend even senates . Lord Barrington . Lord North . 1 1 trifles . He seldom directs his elocution so as to 8 ...
... passed in camps , and learning the rudiments of his profession , not in courts or His oratory has few of those graces which recommend even senates . Lord Barrington . Lord North . 1 1 trifles . He seldom directs his elocution so as to 8 ...
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... passed successively to the Sheerness , the Ludlow Castle , and the Eagle . In the latter vessel he contributed eminently to Sir Edward Hawke's success off Cape Finis- terre , in October , 1747. In 1749 he was appointed governor of New ...
... passed successively to the Sheerness , the Ludlow Castle , and the Eagle . In the latter vessel he contributed eminently to Sir Edward Hawke's success off Cape Finis- terre , in October , 1747. In 1749 he was appointed governor of New ...
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... passed in the seventh of his present majesty , for levying duties on certain goods imported into America , as ... passing of the law , he thought it very proper to have it continued . His lordship was pressed by many of his friends , as ...
... passed in the seventh of his present majesty , for levying duties on certain goods imported into America , as ... passing of the law , he thought it very proper to have it continued . His lordship was pressed by many of his friends , as ...
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... passed into a law . In both houses Murray was employed by the city , and acquitted himself so much to the satisfaction of his clients , that some time after he was presented with the freedom of Edinburgh in a gold box . In 1737 an ...
... passed into a law . In both houses Murray was employed by the city , and acquitted himself so much to the satisfaction of his clients , that some time after he was presented with the freedom of Edinburgh in a gold box . In 1737 an ...
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... passed with little opposition , and had not received any extraordinary support from Lord Mansfield ; but the mind of the public was inflamed by artful misrepre- sentations , and the rage of a popular mob was easily directed against some ...
... passed with little opposition , and had not received any extraordinary support from Lord Mansfield ; but the mind of the public was inflamed by artful misrepre- sentations , and the rage of a popular mob was easily directed against some ...
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Seite 174 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Seite 192 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
Seite 294 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Seite 296 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Seite 305 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — "The gloomy night is gathering fast,
Seite 196 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, Churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I.
Seite 178 - But Johnson informed me that he had made the bargain for Goldsmith, and the price was sixty pounds. "And, Sir," said he, "a sufficient price too, when it was sold; for then the fame of Goldsmith had not been elevated, as it afterwards was, by his 'Traveller...
Seite 289 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
Seite 289 - English artists are most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity, derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend upon it from a higher sphere.
Seite 310 - I have already more than once had occasion to refer to, has often told me that he was seldom more grieved, than when riding into Dumfries one fine summer evening about this rime to attend a county ball, he saw Burns walking alone, on the shady side of the principal street of the town, while the opposite side was gay with successive groups of gentlemen and ladies, all drawn together for the festivities of the night, not one of whom appeared willing to recognise him.