The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, 1. köideJ. Johnson, 1809 |
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... measure in the house of commons , in order to bring the princess Sophia into England , Bolingbroke so artfully opposed it , that it dropped without a debate . For this his moderation was praised , but per- haps at the expense of his ...
... measure in the house of commons , in order to bring the princess Sophia into England , Bolingbroke so artfully opposed it , that it dropped without a debate . For this his moderation was praised , but per- haps at the expense of his ...
Page xvii
... measures with him for their mutual safety , preferring even death itself to the ap- pearance of a temporary friendship . Nothing could have been more weak and in- judicious , than their mutual animosities at this juncture ; and it may ...
... measures with him for their mutual safety , preferring even death itself to the ap- pearance of a temporary friendship . Nothing could have been more weak and in- judicious , than their mutual animosities at this juncture ; and it may ...
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... measures taken to improve this disposition , for driving the business on with vigour , if it tended to a revolution , or for supporting it to advantage if it spun into a war . When I questioned him concerning several persons , whose ...
... measures taken to improve this disposition , for driving the business on with vigour , if it tended to a revolution , or for supporting it to advantage if it spun into a war . When I questioned him concerning several persons , whose ...
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... measure taken by the party . He there found a multitude of people at work , and every one doing what seemed good in his own eyes ; no subordination , no order , no concert . The Jacobites had wrought one another up to look upon the ...
... measure taken by the party . He there found a multitude of people at work , and every one doing what seemed good in his own eyes ; no subordination , no order , no concert . The Jacobites had wrought one another up to look upon the ...
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... measures they had taken for the service of the duke of Ormond ; although Bolingbroke , who was actual secre- tary to the negotiation , had never been admit- ted to a confidence . in their secrets . He was therefore a little surprised ...
... measures they had taken for the service of the duke of Ormond ; although Bolingbroke , who was actual secre- tary to the negotiation , had never been admit- ted to a confidence . in their secrets . He was therefore a little surprised ...
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Page xxvi - I left the town so abruptly, that I had no time to take leave of you or any of my friends. You will excuse me, when you know that 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...
Page cxcii - 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 lxxi - Here lies HENRY ST. JOHN, In the reign of Queen Anne Secretary of War, Secretary of State, And Viscount Bolingbroke : In the days of King George I. and King George II. Something more and better.
Page xlix - 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 xlv - Pretender's hands; contenting himself with making the Duke understand, how little need there was to get rid of a man in this manner, who only wanted an opportunity to get rid of the Pretender and his cause.
Page ccvii - God, who placed me here, will do what he pleases with me hereafter, and he knows best what to do. May he bless you.
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 lxiv - The destruction of the minister was pursued only as a preliminary, but of essential and indisputable necessity, to that end: but when his destruction seemed to approach, the object of his succession interposed to the sight of many, and the reformation of the government was no longer their point of view. They had divided the skin, at least in their thoughts, before they had taken the beast.
Page 142 - ... happy till we can forget that we are miserable, and owe to the weakness of our faculties a tranquillity which ought to be the effect of their strength ? Far otherwise. Let us set all our past and present afflictions at once before our eyes. Let us resolve to overcome them, instead of flying from them, or wearing out the sense of them by long and ignominious patience. Instead of palliating remedies, let us use the incision-knife and the caustic, search the wound to the bottom, and work an immediate...
Page 43 - 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...