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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... suppose that he was sent up to the house of lords , only to render him contemptible . These suspicions were partly true , and partly suggested by Bolingbroke's own ambition : being sensible of his own superior importance and capacity ...
... suppose that he was sent up to the house of lords , only to render him contemptible . These suspicions were partly true , and partly suggested by Bolingbroke's own ambition : being sensible of his own superior importance and capacity ...
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... suppose , because his restricted income would not allow of his living in England in a style , either at all approaching to that which he once exhibited , or commensurate with even his more moderate wishes at this time . But he was not ...
... suppose , because his restricted income would not allow of his living in England in a style , either at all approaching to that which he once exhibited , or commensurate with even his more moderate wishes at this time . But he was not ...
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... suppose - and the house being cleared , I am sure no person that hears me can come within the description of the person I am to suppose . Let us suppose in this , or in some other unfortunate country , an anti - minister who thinks ...
... suppose - and the house being cleared , I am sure no person that hears me can come within the description of the person I am to suppose . Let us suppose in this , or in some other unfortunate country , an anti - minister who thinks ...
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... suppose him , and his creatures and tools by his advice , spreading the alarm over the whole nation , and crying out ; Gentlemen our country is at present involved in many dangerous difficulties , all which we would have extricated you ...
... suppose him , and his creatures and tools by his advice , spreading the alarm over the whole nation , and crying out ; Gentlemen our country is at present involved in many dangerous difficulties , all which we would have extricated you ...
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... suppose that the secession was not as compulsory as must have been the case agreeably to the opinion held by the Quarterly Review . It is dated , March 18th , 1736. The first part is on the gloomy prospect that Eng- land will not be ...
... suppose that the secession was not as compulsory as must have been the case agreeably to the opinion held by the Quarterly Review . It is dated , March 18th , 1736. The first part is on the gloomy prospect that Eng- land will not be ...
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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.