The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, 1. köideCarey and Hart, 1841 |
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... minister's in- tentions . Memorial was delivered after memorial ; the people of England , the parliament , and all ... ministers and ambassadors abroad , who would do nothing but in pursuance of his directions . As an orator , in the ...
... minister's in- tentions . Memorial was delivered after memorial ; the people of England , the parliament , and all ... ministers and ambassadors abroad , who would do nothing but in pursuance of his directions . As an orator , in the ...
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... minister , and the orator , as given by his friend Swift , in the following language : " It happens to very few men in any age or country to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune as the late secretary ...
... minister , and the orator , as given by his friend Swift , in the following language : " It happens to very few men in any age or country to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune as the late secretary ...
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... minister . There were , also , about this time , some new knights of the garter to be made ; Harley was one of these ; Bolingbroke thought himself equally entitled to that distinction , but did not obtain it . Whatever might have been ...
... minister . There were , also , about this time , some new knights of the garter to be made ; Harley was one of these ; Bolingbroke thought himself equally entitled to that distinction , but did not obtain it . Whatever might have been ...
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... minister . Upon the accession of George I to the throne , in 1714 , dangers began to threaten the late ministry on every side : whether they had really intentions of bringing in the Pretender , or whether the whigs made it a pretext for ...
... minister . Upon the accession of George I to the throne , in 1714 , dangers began to threaten the late ministry on every side : whether they had really intentions of bringing in the Pretender , or whether the whigs made it a pretext for ...
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... ministers , that the queen his mis- tress would make no peace but in concert with them , yet he had sent Mr. Prior to ... minister at London , this convention , which was the pre- liminary instructions to her majesty's plenipotentiaries ...
... ministers , that the queen his mis- tress would make no peace but in concert with them , yet he had sent Mr. Prior to ... minister at London , this convention , which was the pre- liminary instructions to her majesty's plenipotentiaries ...
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Page 52 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Page 419 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.
Page 76 - 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 114 - ... 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 16 - and desire of knowledge, were what I felt all my life : and though my genius, unlike the demon of Socrates, whispered so softly, that very often I heard him not in the hurry of those passions with which I was transported, yet some calmer hours there were, and in them I hearkened to him.
Page 28 - 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.
Page 80 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 51 - I am then, two-thirds restored, my person safe, (unless I meet hereafter with harder treatment than even that of Sir Walter Raleigh) and my estate, with all the other property I have acquired, or may acquire, secured to me. But the attainder is kept carefully and prudently in force, lest so corrupt a member should come again into the house of lords, and his bad leaven should sour that sweet, untainted mass.
Page 56 - Having finished this, which was received with the utmost avidity, he resolved to take leave not only of his enemies and friends, but even of his country; and in this resolution, in the year...
Page 121 - Instead of gathering strength (says Bolingbroke), either as a ministry or as a party, we grew weaker every day. The peace had been judged with reason to be the only solid foundation whereupon we could erect a Tory system ; and yet when it was made, we found ourselves at a full stand. Nay, the very work, which ought to have been the basis of our strength, was in part demolished before our eyes and we were stoned with the ruins of it.