Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...: With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern MusicE. Bliss & E. White, 1824 - 351 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة v
... Pitt's Bill for the Relief of the Poor , V. · Essay on Impressing Seamen - Character of the Earl of Sandwich , VI . His Lordship's Speech , in Defence of his Administration of Greenwich Hospital - Notice of Lord Erskine's Speech on that ...
... Pitt's Bill for the Relief of the Poor , V. · Essay on Impressing Seamen - Character of the Earl of Sandwich , VI . His Lordship's Speech , in Defence of his Administration of Greenwich Hospital - Notice of Lord Erskine's Speech on that ...
الصفحة vi
... Pitt , 138 4. Mr. Burke , 145 5. - Miscellaneous Observations on the Characters of Mr. Pitt , Mr. Fox , and Mr. Burke , 147 6. On the Holy Alliance , 155 7. - Lord Thurlow , 164 8. Mr. Sheridan - Mr . Dundas , 167 9.-Mr. Grattan , 169 ...
... Pitt , 138 4. Mr. Burke , 145 5. - Miscellaneous Observations on the Characters of Mr. Pitt , Mr. Fox , and Mr. Burke , 147 6. On the Holy Alliance , 155 7. - Lord Thurlow , 164 8. Mr. Sheridan - Mr . Dundas , 167 9.-Mr. Grattan , 169 ...
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... PITT'S BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR . THE Reminiscent must now introduce himself to his readers . He first appeared before the public , in an anonymous Essay on Houses of Industry , -one of the many well - meant , but unavailing ...
... PITT'S BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR . THE Reminiscent must now introduce himself to his readers . He first appeared before the public , in an anonymous Essay on Houses of Industry , -one of the many well - meant , but unavailing ...
الصفحة 59
... Pitt should walk into the adjoining town of Halsted . It pre- sented a spectacle of the utmost poverty and wretched- ness he surveyed it for some time in wonder and si- lence ; and then declared that he had no conception that England ...
... Pitt should walk into the adjoining town of Halsted . It pre- sented a spectacle of the utmost poverty and wretched- ness he surveyed it for some time in wonder and si- lence ; and then declared that he had no conception that England ...
الصفحة 64
... magnitude of this influence . He said that no one could conceive its extent and effect , who had not had opportunities of observing its direct or indirect operation on every state - was and condition of life.- " While Mr. Pitt 64.
... magnitude of this influence . He said that no one could conceive its extent and effect , who had not had opportunities of observing its direct or indirect operation on every state - was and condition of life.- " While Mr. Pitt 64.
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الصفحة 132 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
الصفحة 76 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
الصفحة 173 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, — enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land....
الصفحة 133 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
الصفحة 23 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
الصفحة 133 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord* frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
الصفحة 173 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
الصفحة 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
الصفحة 132 - ... to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren ? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment.
الصفحة 172 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.