| Epochs - 1882 - 794 Seiten
...describes the House as very loyal and anxious to serve His Majesty. " It could never be hoped," he says, " that more sober and dispassionate men would ever meet...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them." But the fact of their questioning the legality of ship-money, his favourite impost, seems to have been... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 Seiten
...King, and to do him service." " It could never be hoped," he observes elsewhere, " that more sober or dispassionate men would ever meet together in that...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them." In this Parliament Hampden took his seat as member for Buckinghamshire, and thenceforward, till the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 Seiten
...service." "It could never be hoped," he observes elsewhere, " thai more sober or dispassionate men wouk nd together in a commentator. He was content to be merely a commentator, to lu this Parliament Hnmpden took his scut aa member for Buckinghamihire, and thenceforward, till the... | |
| Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - 1886 - 870 Seiten
...service. It could never be hoped,' he remarks elsewhere, 'that more sober or dispassionate men could ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them.' 1 Charles pressed for an ample and immediate supply, and pledged his word that if the Commons would... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1888 - 664 Seiten
...misery in view which shortly after fell out. It could never be hoped that more sober and dispassioned men would ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them ; nor could any man imagine what offence they had given which put the King to that resolution. But... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 Seiten
...king, and to do him service." "It could never be hoped," lie observes elsewhere, " that more sober or dispassionate men would ever meet together in that...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them." of grievance. The king sent a message to the Commons, offering, if they would vote him twelve subsidies,... | |
| 1892 - 470 Seiten
...Sussex every few days, as she gratefully acknowledges ; they were probably destroyed as dangerous. ' It could never be hoped that more sober and dispassionate men would ever meet again in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them,' is Clarendon's verdict on the members.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 Seiten
...King, and to do him service." " It could never be hoped," he observes elsewhere, "that more sober or Paoli Boswell. Servile and impertinent, shallow and...pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pr In this Parliament Hampden took his seat as member for Buckinghamshire, and thenceforward, till the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 700 Seiten
...King, and to do him service." " It could never be hoped," he observes elsewhere, " that more sober or dispassionate men would ever meet together in that...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them." In this Parliament Hampden took his seat as member for Buckinghamshire, and thenceforward, till the... | |
| Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead - 1905 - 678 Seiten
...service. It could never be hoped," he remarks elsewhere, " that more sober or dispassionate men could ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them."2 Charles pressed for an ample and immediate supply, and pledged his word that if the Commons... | |
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