Journal to Stella (Letter XXXVIII-LXV). Tracts, political and historical, prior to the accession of George I. The ExaminerArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814 |
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... parliament . After all , it is a strange unhappy necessity of making so many peers together ; but the queen has drawn it upon herself , by her confounded trimming and mo- deration . Three , as I told you , are of our society . the VOL ...
... parliament . After all , it is a strange unhappy necessity of making so many peers together ; but the queen has drawn it upon herself , by her confounded trimming and mo- deration . Three , as I told you , are of our society . the VOL ...
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... parliament was to sit to - day ; and met ; but were adjourned by the queen's directions till Thursday . She designs to make some important speech then . She pretended illness ; but I believe they were not ready , and they expect some ...
... parliament was to sit to - day ; and met ; but were adjourned by the queen's directions till Thursday . She designs to make some important speech then . She pretended illness ; but I believe they were not ready , and they expect some ...
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... parliament sits to - morrow , and Wal- pole , late secretary at war , is to be swinged for bribery , and the queen is to communicate some- thing of great importance to the two houses , at least they say so . But I must think of ...
... parliament sits to - morrow , and Wal- pole , late secretary at war , is to be swinged for bribery , and the queen is to communicate some- thing of great importance to the two houses , at least they say so . But I must think of ...
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... parliament was up ; I said I would come ; but I dined at my usual time ; know- ing the House would sit late on this great affair . I dined at a tavern with Mr Domville and another gentleman ; I have not done so before these many months ...
... parliament was up ; I said I would come ; but I dined at my usual time ; know- ing the House would sit late on this great affair . I dined at a tavern with Mr Domville and another gentleman ; I have not done so before these many months ...
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... parliament will be very busy to - mor- row upon the state of the war ; and the secretary , who is to treat as president , must be in the House . I fancy my talking of persons and things here , must be very tedious to you , because you ...
... parliament will be very busy to - mor- row upon the state of the war ; and the secretary , who is to treat as president , must be in the House . I fancy my talking of persons and things here , must be very tedious to you , because you ...
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Página 64 - An outrageous ambition of doing all possible hurt to, their fellow-creatures is the great cement of their assembly, and the only qualification required in the members. In order to exert this principle in its full strength and perfection, they take care to drink themselves to a pitch that is beyond the possibility of attending to any motions of reason or humanity; then make a general sally, and attack all that are so unfortunate as to walk the streets through which they patrole. Some are knocked down,...
Página 95 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress: within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten 'years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men. (a) The women were of such an enormous stature, that we appeared as grasshoppers before them.
Página 387 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Página 114 - James's square ; but the porter could hardly answer for tears, and a great rabble was about the house. In short, they fought at seven this morning.
Página 114 - London, Nov. 15, 1712*. JjEFORE this comes to your hands, you will have heard of the most terrible accident that hath almost ever happened. This morning, at eight, my man brought me word, that duke Hamilton had fought with lord Mohun, and killed him, and was brought home wounded. I immediately sent him to the duke's house, in St. James's square ; but the porter could hardly answer for tears, and a great rabble was about the house.
Página 115 - They have removed the poor Duchess to a lodging in the neighbourhood, where I have been with her two hours, and am just come away. I never saw so melancholy a scene...
Página 64 - ... misanthropes are distinguished from one another, consist in the various kinds of barbarities which they execute upon their prisoners. Some are celebrated for a happy dexterity in tipping the lion upon them; which is performed by squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers...
Página 318 - Let any Man observe the Equipages in this Town; he shall find the greater Number of those who make a Figure, to be a Species of Men quite different from any that were ever known before the Revolution; consisting either of Generals and Colonels, or of such whose whole Fortunes lie in Funds and Stocks: So that Power, which, according to the old Maxim, was used to follow Land, is now gone over to Money...
Página 238 - Somers ; told him, that, having been long conversant with the Greek and Roman authors, and therefore a lover of liberty, I found myself much inclined to be what they called a Whig in politics ; and that, besides, I thought it impossible, upon any other principle, to defend, or submit to, the Revolution...
Página 104 - MD's health, and Pdfr's, and that I may live free from the envy and discontent that attends those who are thought to have more favour at court than they really possess. Love Pdfr, who loves MD above all things.