Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, Volumen1R. Bentley, 1853 |
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... for some time the thoughts of * Fitzpatrick was en pension at that town , where he learnt French and attended the Military Academy .-- V . H. our St. Alban's * suppers . I shall certainly not 42 [ ÆTAT . 18 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
... for some time the thoughts of * Fitzpatrick was en pension at that town , where he learnt French and attended the Military Academy .-- V . H. our St. Alban's * suppers . I shall certainly not 42 [ ÆTAT . 18 . CORRESPONDENCE OF.
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... certainly not be in England before next summer , if then ; and as for Carlisle , I suppose he will then be setting out for his travels , if he goes on in the drawling way he has done hitherto . You will have heard , to be sure , of his ...
... certainly not be in England before next summer , if then ; and as for Carlisle , I suppose he will then be setting out for his travels , if he goes on in the drawling way he has done hitherto . You will have heard , to be sure , of his ...
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... certainly it was not the intention of Nature that I should be a public speaker , and I shall never attempt it any more . Hic finis Priami fatorum -I shall have the pleasure of seeing you some time next week in my way to Bath . I hope ...
... certainly it was not the intention of Nature that I should be a public speaker , and I shall never attempt it any more . Hic finis Priami fatorum -I shall have the pleasure of seeing you some time next week in my way to Bath . I hope ...
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... certainly in his principles no moderate man , and when his party did not interfere , generally leaned towards the more arbitrary side , as had appeared in the late debates on the Church , in which he had declared for the clergy . He ...
... certainly in his principles no moderate man , and when his party did not interfere , generally leaned towards the more arbitrary side , as had appeared in the late debates on the Church , in which he had declared for the clergy . He ...
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... certainly guess to be an offer of a cessation of hosti- lities . The word ' unlimited ' is an odd word , but I suppose nothing more is meant by it than that Lord Howe's powers were not limited to military affairs . I think the ...
... certainly guess to be an offer of a cessation of hosti- lities . The word ' unlimited ' is an odd word , but I suppose nothing more is meant by it than that Lord Howe's powers were not limited to military affairs . I think the ...
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Memorials and Correspondence, Volumen1 Charles James Fox,Earl John Russell Russell Vista completa - 1853 |
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Página 130 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Página 108 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 107 - Great Britain give and grant to your majesty, what ? Our own property ? No. We give and grant to your majesty, the property of your majesty's commons of America.
Página 254 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 149 - ... interrupt our connection and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity^ and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, re-established them in power.
Página 108 - The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 108 - Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the house what is really my opinion. It is that the Stamp Act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately.
Página 126 - I think I can announce it as a fact, that it is not the wish or interest of that government, or any other upon this continent, separately or collectively, to set up for independence...
Página 236 - I am thus treated, it is evident to Me what treatment I am to expect from Opposition if I was to call them now to my Service ; Nothing less will satisfy them than a total Change of Measures and Men ; to obtain their Support I must deliver up my Person, my Principles, and my Dominions into their hands...
Página 127 - ... the merit of his former conduct. As to any gratitude to be expected from him or his family, the whole tenor of their lives has shown them void of that most honourable sentiment. But when decrepitude or death puts an end to him as a trumpet of sedition, I shall make no difficulty in placing the second son's name instead of the father's, and making up the pension £3000.