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... 439 Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt . By George Tomline , D.D. F.R.S. Lord Bishop of Winchester . 452 . LIST OF BOOKS INDEX 503 - 509 THE BRITISH REVIEW , AND LONDON CRITICAL JOURNAL . JUNE CONTENTS .
... 439 Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt . By George Tomline , D.D. F.R.S. Lord Bishop of Winchester . 452 . LIST OF BOOKS INDEX 503 - 509 THE BRITISH REVIEW , AND LONDON CRITICAL JOURNAL . JUNE CONTENTS .
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... Pitt . These memoirs may be regarded as aiming at two objects : to pourtray the characters of the principal political leaders ; and to explain the causes of the changes that occurred in the British ministry during the period of which ...
... Pitt . These memoirs may be regarded as aiming at two objects : to pourtray the characters of the principal political leaders ; and to explain the causes of the changes that occurred in the British ministry during the period of which ...
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... Pitt's expressive language , suc- ceeded in an attempt which it was impossible to imagine that such a genius should conceive , an attempt to make fools of all mankind . Lord Waldegrave has painted his Grace with great truth of ...
... Pitt's expressive language , suc- ceeded in an attempt which it was impossible to imagine that such a genius should conceive , an attempt to make fools of all mankind . Lord Waldegrave has painted his Grace with great truth of ...
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... Pitt has the finest genius , improved by study and all the ornamental part of classical learning . " He came early into the House of Commons , where he soon dis- tinguished himself ; lost a cornetcy of horse , which was then his only ...
... Pitt has the finest genius , improved by study and all the ornamental part of classical learning . " He came early into the House of Commons , where he soon dis- tinguished himself ; lost a cornetcy of horse , which was then his only ...
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... Pitt could be guilty of the worst of actions , whenever his ambition , his pride , or his resentment were to be gratified ; but that he could also be sensible of good treatment ; was bold and resolute , above doing things by halves ...
... Pitt could be guilty of the worst of actions , whenever his ambition , his pride , or his resentment were to be gratified ; but that he could also be sensible of good treatment ; was bold and resolute , above doing things by halves ...
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Page 436 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Page 435 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 245 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
Page 382 - The person who would treat such a subject must increase the ideal, and diminish the actual horror of the events, so that the pleasure which arises from the poetry which exists in these tempestuous sufferings and crimes may mitigate the pain of the contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring.
Page 146 - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus ; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God ; but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man : and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.
Page 185 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 387 - Pah ! I am choked ! There creeps A clinging, black, contaminating mist About me — 'tis substantial, heavy, thick ; I cannot pluck it from me, for it glues My fingers and my limbs to one another, And eats into my sinews, and dissolves My flesh to a pollution, poisoning The subtle, pure, and inmost spirit of life ! My God ! I never knew what the mad felt Before ; for I am mad beyond all doubt ! [Afore wildly.
Page 185 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 499 - Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the respective laws and customs of the same ? Sovereign. I solemnly promise so to do.
Page 211 - ... it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.