The Life of William, Lord Russell: With Some Account of the Times in which He LivedLongmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819 - 329 من الصفحات |
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... speaking or writing , his own merit from that of the party with which he acted . He does not appear as an original proposer of any great measure ; and he always inclined to the course which was the least striking and ambitious . Why ...
... speaking or writing , his own merit from that of the party with which he acted . He does not appear as an original proposer of any great measure ; and he always inclined to the course which was the least striking and ambitious . Why ...
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... Speaking of the gallant and generous Ossory , Mr. Evelyn says , " One thing more let me note , that he often expressed to me the abhorrence he had of that base and un- worthy action he was put upon of engaging the Smyrna fleet in time ...
... Speaking of the gallant and generous Ossory , Mr. Evelyn says , " One thing more let me note , that he often expressed to me the abhorrence he had of that base and un- worthy action he was put upon of engaging the Smyrna fleet in time ...
الصفحة 36
... in those countries , men who did not dare to speak the truth to their sovereign , were not afraid to take up arms against him . But in England , the natural and constitutional method of resisting public 36 [ 1672 . THE LIFE OF.
... in those countries , men who did not dare to speak the truth to their sovereign , were not afraid to take up arms against him . But in England , the natural and constitutional method of resisting public 36 [ 1672 . THE LIFE OF.
الصفحة 69
... speak as he wished . " . He after- wards says that Buckingham was the only person of the opposition who would enter into a formal engagement . Allowing the whole of this statement to be correct , few persons , I imagine , will feel a ...
... speak as he wished . " . He after- wards says that Buckingham was the only person of the opposition who would enter into a formal engagement . Allowing the whole of this statement to be correct , few persons , I imagine , will feel a ...
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... speaking , much to the advantage of Opposition . It is said that the practice of splitting freeholds was now introduced , for the first time , by the country party . Some letters of Lord Shaftesbury and the Marquis of Winchester were ...
... speaking , much to the advantage of Opposition . It is said that the practice of splitting freeholds was now introduced , for the first time , by the country party . Some letters of Lord Shaftesbury and the Marquis of Winchester were ...
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LIFE OF WILLIAM LORD RUSSELL <span dir=ltr>John Russell Earl Russell, 1792-1878</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2016 |
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الصفحة 117 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please; His motions all accompanied with grace, And Paradise was opened in his face.
الصفحة 43 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissionated by him, and that I will conform to the liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by law established...
الصفحة 195 - Queen or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the King in his realm...
الصفحة 234 - I know I have deserved my punishment, and will be silent under it; but yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows, I want him to talk with, to walk with, to cut and sleep with ; all these things are irksome to me...
الصفحة 100 - Help'd to support the knave. But Sunderland, Godolphin, Lory, These will appear such chits in story, Twill turn all politics to jests, To be repeated like John Dory, When fiddlers sing at feasts.
الصفحة 303 - His great dexterity was in the art of special pleading, and he would lay snares that often caught his superiors who were not aware of his traps. And he was so fond of success for his clients, that, rather than fail, he would set the court hard with a trick : for which he met sometimes with a reprimand, which he would wittily ward off, so that no one was much offended with him.
الصفحة 6 - The earl of Bedford secretly undertook to his majesty, that the earl of Strafford's life should be preserved; and to procure his revenue to be settled, as amply as any of his progenitors...
الصفحة 302 - He appeared very ambitious to learn to write; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase; and that was his desk where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed his faculties and fell to forms, and, by books that were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk; and by the same course of improvement...
الصفحة 164 - We will still believe and maintain that our Kings derive not their title from the people but from God; that to Him only they are accountable; that it belongs not to subjects, either to create or censure, but to honour and obey their sovereign, who comes to be so by a fundamental hereditary right of succession, which no religion, no law, no fault or forfeiture can alter or diminish.
الصفحة 303 - I have seen him for hours and half-hours together, before the court sat, stand at the bar with an audience of students over against him putting of cases, and debating so as suited their capacities and encouraged their industry. And so in the Temple, he seldom moved without a parcel of youths hanging about him, and he merry and jesting with them.