Political Portraits in this New Era: With Explanatory Notes, Historical and Biographical, 第 2 巻1814 |
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... views do not interfere , he attaches himself to obtaining ad- vantages that ministers resist . With all his excel- lent , admirable , and brilliant talents , Mr. Grattan is the tool of a party , and a lamentable instance he is of that ...
... views do not interfere , he attaches himself to obtaining ad- vantages that ministers resist . With all his excel- lent , admirable , and brilliant talents , Mr. Grattan is the tool of a party , and a lamentable instance he is of that ...
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... views to what would make them most happy and prosperous ; but Mr. Grattan that they adhere to party invariably , without considering whether in so doing they are not going against the interests of their country . This is what Mr. Pope ...
... views to what would make them most happy and prosperous ; but Mr. Grattan that they adhere to party invariably , without considering whether in so doing they are not going against the interests of their country . This is what Mr. Pope ...
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... views subservient to his public duty , and his father's ministers were retained in office . All this went on well , till Mr. Perceval , the first lord of the treasury , and chancellor of the exche- quer , was assassinated , when it was ...
... views subservient to his public duty , and his father's ministers were retained in office . All this went on well , till Mr. Perceval , the first lord of the treasury , and chancellor of the exche- quer , was assassinated , when it was ...
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... views of mankind , and that moderation is the only thing that enables any one nation to preserve , for a long period , a possession that excites envy amongst others * . It is strange enough , that though Spain preserved a very strict ...
... views of mankind , and that moderation is the only thing that enables any one nation to preserve , for a long period , a possession that excites envy amongst others * . It is strange enough , that though Spain preserved a very strict ...
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... views are so just , so noble , and so perfectly in unison with the good of mankind , and the views of the British court , that there is none of the diplomatic art necessary . We now see a diplomatic character without dupli- city ; a ...
... views are so just , so noble , and so perfectly in unison with the good of mankind , and the views of the British court , that there is none of the diplomatic art necessary . We now see a diplomatic character without dupli- city ; a ...
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85 ページ - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
111 ページ - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...
347 ページ - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep...
111 ページ - Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, "Sir, your name?— Sir you have the advantage of me— Mr. Such-a-one— I beg a thousand...
380 ページ - Christians are men and women, too; both are surely human beings, and it is quite likely that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth to them all.
321 ページ - ... to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they reta;n what belong to others. The rest are imprisoned by the wantonness of pride, the malignity of revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation — Johnson.
85 ページ - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
111 ページ - I venture to say, it did so happen, that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.
375 ページ - In these two things, viz., an equal indifferency for all truth (I mean the receiving it in the love of it as truth, but not loving it for any other reason before we know it to be true) and in the examination of our principles and not receiving any for such nor building on them...
321 ページ - The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an atrophy.