Thackeray's History of the Earl of Chatham1834 - 37 páginas |
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... talents , strong passions , quick sensibility , and vehement enthusiasm for the grand and the beautiful . There was something about him which ennobled tergiversation itself . He often went wrong , very wrong . But , to quote the ...
... talents , strong passions , quick sensibility , and vehement enthusiasm for the grand and the beautiful . There was something about him which ennobled tergiversation itself . He often went wrong , very wrong . But , to quote the ...
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... talents and ambition of the Whig party , and by making room here and there for a Tory not unfriendly to the House of Brunswick , Walpole might have averted the tremendous con- flict in which he passed the latter years of his ...
... talents and ambition of the Whig party , and by making room here and there for a Tory not unfriendly to the House of Brunswick , Walpole might have averted the tremendous con- flict in which he passed the latter years of his ...
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... talents , and his para- mount influence in his native country . — In each of these cases taken separately , a skilful defender of Walpole might perhaps make out a case for him . But when we see that during a long course of years all the ...
... talents , and his para- mount influence in his native country . — In each of these cases taken separately , a skilful defender of Walpole might perhaps make out a case for him . But when we see that during a long course of years all the ...
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... talents , of great fluency , of great boldness , — a man whose whole life was passed in parliamentary conflict , -a man who , during several years , was the leading minister of the Crown in the House of Commons , should never have ...
... talents , of great fluency , of great boldness , — a man whose whole life was passed in parliamentary conflict , -a man who , during several years , was the leading minister of the Crown in the House of Commons , should never have ...
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... talents were of the highest order . As a speaker , he was in almost all respects the very opposite of Pitt . His figure was ungraceful his face , as Reynolds and Roubiliac have preserved it to us , indicated a strong understanding ; but ...
... talents were of the highest order . As a speaker , he was in almost all respects the very opposite of Pitt . His figure was ungraceful his face , as Reynolds and Roubiliac have preserved it to us , indicated a strong understanding ; but ...
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Página 184 - ... fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Página 161 - Some years after, it was my fortune to converse with many of the principal actors against that minister, and with those who principally excited that clamour. None of them, no not one, did in the least defend the measure, or attempt to justify their conduct. They condemned it as freely as they would have done in commenting upon any proceeding in history in which they were totally unconcerned.
Página 171 - I was taken to see the place where the two rivers meet, — the one gentle, feeble, languid, and, though languid, yet of no depth, the other a boisterous and impetuous torrent ; but different as they are, they meet at last.
Página 163 - Pitt was then one of the poor ; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of ' ' the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Página 163 - More than thirty years before, her temper had ruined the party to which she belonged and the husband whom she adored. Time had made her neither wiser nor kinder. Whoever was at any moment great and prosperous was the object of her fiercest detestation. She had hated Walpole; she now hated Carteret. Pope, long before her death, predicted the fate of her vast property — "To heirs unknown descends the unguarded store, Or wanders, heaven-directed, to the poor.
Página 168 - Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall.
Página 176 - Commons had been elected when he was at the head of affairs. The members for the ministerial boroughs had all been nominated by him. The public offices swarmed with his creatures. Pitt desired power — and he desired it, we really believe, from high and generous motives. He was, in the strict sense of the word, a patriot. He had...