 I was dragged into the house of lords in such a manner, as to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward, and was there left to defend the treaties almost alone.  THE LONDON ADN WESTMINSTER - Page 286by The London and Westminster Review April-August,1838 - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...the resolution! taken in it, rendered the conclusion of the treaties practicable. After this, I was dragged into the house of lords in such a manner as to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward, being there left to defend the treaties alone. " It would not have been hard," continues he, " to have... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 546 pages
...the resolutions taken in it, rendered the Conclusion of the treaties practicable. After this I was dragged into the house of lords in such a manner,...as to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward, and was there left to defend the treaties almost alone. It would not have been hard to have forced... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...the resolutions taken in it, rendered the conclusion of the treaties practicable. After this, I was dragged into the House of Lords in such a manner as to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward ; and was there left to defend the treaties alone. It would not have been hard," continues he, " to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...the resolutions taken in it, rendered the conclusion of the treaties practicable. After this, I was dragged into the House of Lords in such a manner as...to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward*; and was there left to defend the treaties alone. It would not have been hard," continues he, " to have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...the resolutions taken in it, rendered the conclusion of the treaties practicable. After this, I was dragged into the House of Lords in such a manner as to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward ; and was there left to defend the treaties alone. It would not have been hard," continues he, " to... | |
 | William Coxe - Prime ministers - 1816 - 452 pages
...he was only created a viscount; a cause of complaint which he ac.knowledged, by saying that he was dragged into the house of lords, in such a manner as to make his promotion a punishment, and not a reward. He was still farther discontented, when lie did not obtain... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - CHR 1826 - 1826 - 360 pages
...successor, were indifferent to her in comparison to the maintenance of her own fullness of power, and like a manner as to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward." p. 3J. See likewise his correspondence. * See his correspondence, vol. i. Swift, Journal to Stella.... | |
 | John Russell (1st earl.) - 1826 - 700 pages
...successor, were indiffeient to her in comparison to the maintenance of her own fullness of power, and like a manner as to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward." p. 31. See likewise his correspondence. * See his correspondence, vol. i. Swift, Journal to Stella.... | |
 | Edmund Calamy - Calamy, Edmund - 1829 - 588 pages
...Mr. Secretary St. John, soon after made Viscount Bolingbroke,* he was much more open and * " I was dragged into the House of Lords in such a manner as to make my promotion a punishment, not a reward ; and was there left to defend the treaties almost alone." See " Letter to Windham," p. 31 — ED.... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - Great Britain - 1836 - 460 pages
...in it, rendered the conclusion of the CHAP. treaties practicable. After this I was dragged into XIL the house of lords, in such a manner as to make my AD- 1712promotion a punishment, not a reward; and was there left to defend the treaties almost alone.... | |
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