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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... sure to condemn him for his reli- gion ; and on the contrary , those most strongly attached to his theological opinions , are the most likely to decry his politics . On whatever side he is regarded , he is sure to have opposers , and ...
... sure to condemn him for his reli- gion ; and on the contrary , those most strongly attached to his theological opinions , are the most likely to decry his politics . On whatever side he is regarded , he is sure to have opposers , and ...
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... sure , that walks the mall , and frequents St. James's coffee - house and the chocolate houses . " At Eton , St. John became the school associate of Robert Wal- pole , who was his senior by two years , and between whom and himself was ...
... sure , that walks the mall , and frequents St. James's coffee - house and the chocolate houses . " At Eton , St. John became the school associate of Robert Wal- pole , who was his senior by two years , and between whom and himself was ...
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... sure my ill fate , that all those whom I most loved , and with whom I most lived , must be banished . After both of you left England , my constant host was the Bishop of Rochester . Sure , this is a nation which is cursedly afraid of ...
... sure my ill fate , that all those whom I most loved , and with whom I most lived , must be banished . After both of you left England , my constant host was the Bishop of Rochester . Sure , this is a nation which is cursedly afraid of ...
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... 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 himself a person of so great and extensive parts ...
... 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 himself a person of so great and extensive parts ...
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... sure you are , at the dreadful death of our friend Bolingbroke ? The remedy has hastened his death , against which there was no remedy ; for his cancer was not topical , but universal , and had so infected the whole mass of his blood ...
... sure you are , at the dreadful death of our friend Bolingbroke ? The remedy has hastened his death , against which there was no remedy ; for his cancer was not topical , but universal , and had so infected the whole mass of his blood ...
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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.