The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, 1. köideJ. Johnson, 1809 |
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Page cxc - I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money.
Page xxvi - I had certain and repeated informations, from some who are in the secret of affairs, that a resolution was taken, by those who have power to execute it, to pursue me to the scaffold. My blood was to have been the cement of a new alliance, nor could my innocence be any security, after it had once been demanded from abroad, and resolved on at home, that it was necessary to cut me off.
Page 2 - Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said testator, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of OLIVER PRICE and THOMAS HALL.
Page 12 - I am afraid that we came to court in the same dispositions as all parties have done; that the principal spring of our actions was to have the government of the state in our hands; that our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves and great opportunities of rewarding those who had helped to raise us, and of hurting those who stood in opposition to us.
Page cxc - ... capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money. His only fault is talking to his friends in way of complaint of too great a load of business, which looks a little like affectation : and he endeavours too much to mix the fine gentleman, and man of pleasure, with the man of business. What truth and sincerity he may have I know not...
Page lxxiii - ... faculty in the reformation. It might have been better for his quiet, as a man, if he had been content to act a subordinate character in the state; and it had certainly been better for his memory as a writer, if he had aimed at doing less than he attempted.
Page ccv - And in a letter from Chesterfield to a lady of rank at Paris, he says, " I frequently see our friend Bolingbroke, but I see him with great concern. A...
Page lxviii - Bolingbroke," says Pope, in one of his letters, " is above trifling, when he writes of any thing in this world, he is more than mortal. If ever he trifles, it must be when he turns divine.
Page 41 - I saw at that time several lords concur to condemn in one general vote all that they had approved in a former parliament by many particular resolutions. Among several bloody resolutions proposed and agitated at this time, the...
Page 13 - Queen's favor, to break the body of the Whigs, to render their supports useless to them, and to fill the employments of the kingdom down to the meanest with Tories.