Memoirs of the Most Noble Richard Marquess Wellesley: Comprising Numerous Letters and Documents, Now First Published from Original Mss, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1847 |
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... enemies . His caution and decision in the war with Tippoo Sultaun , which crushed the hopes of the French in India , and the promptitude with which he fitted out an expedition to coöperate from the Red Sea , with the British and Turkish ...
... enemies . His caution and decision in the war with Tippoo Sultaun , which crushed the hopes of the French in India , and the promptitude with which he fitted out an expedition to coöperate from the Red Sea , with the British and Turkish ...
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... enemy and maintain the integrity of , and im- part security to , the vast possessions committed to his charge . The wisdom of the Marquess Wellesley's policy in India is now universally recognised ; the voice of all parties is ...
... enemy and maintain the integrity of , and im- part security to , the vast possessions committed to his charge . The wisdom of the Marquess Wellesley's policy in India is now universally recognised ; the voice of all parties is ...
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... enemies of the house of Kildare . " This gentle- man , Robert Cowley , " adds he , " for his wisdom and policy was well esteemed of the lady Margaret , Coun- tesse of Ossorie , as one by whose advice she was in all her affairs directed ...
... enemies of the house of Kildare . " This gentle- man , Robert Cowley , " adds he , " for his wisdom and policy was well esteemed of the lady Margaret , Coun- tesse of Ossorie , as one by whose advice she was in all her affairs directed ...
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... enemies trusted to have reduced this happy people to the level of their own miserable condition . • Commemoratio illius sce- leris intermissa est , non memoria deleta , dum genus humanum , dum populi Romani nomen exstabit , ( quod ...
... enemies trusted to have reduced this happy people to the level of their own miserable condition . • Commemoratio illius sce- leris intermissa est , non memoria deleta , dum genus humanum , dum populi Romani nomen exstabit , ( quod ...
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... enemies of France , and therefore an object of hatred to a vain and excited people , —it would be diffi- cult to censure the policy so warmly and so ably recommended by the Earl of Mornington in 1794 , of which , as we shall soon see ...
... enemies of France , and therefore an object of hatred to a vain and excited people , —it would be diffi- cult to censure the policy so warmly and so ably recommended by the Earl of Mornington in 1794 , of which , as we shall soon see ...
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Page 400 - I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, your Lordship's " Most obedient and obliged servant,
Page 64 - Forgive me, Freedom! O forgive those dreams! I hear thy voice, I hear thy loud lament, From bleak Helvetia's icy caverns sent — I hear thy groans upon her blood-stained streams!
Page 64 - And Britain joined the dire array ; Though dear her shores and circling ocean, Though many friendships, many youthful loves, Had swol'n the patriot emotion, And flung a magic light o'er all her hills and groves ; Yet still my voice, unaltered, sang defeat To all that braved the tyrant-quelling lance, And shame too long delayed and vain retreat...
Page 165 - mid charcoal gleams, The Moslems' savoury supper steams ; While all apart, beneath the wood. The Hindoo cooks his simpler food. ' Come, walk with me the jungle through. If yonder hunter told us true, Far off, in desert dank and rude, The tiger holds...
Page 64 - With what a joy my lofty gratulation Unawed I sang, amid a slavish band : And when to whelm the disenchanted nation, Like fiends embattled by a wizard's wand, The Monarchs marched in evil day, And Britain joined the dire array...
Page 36 - ... the Prince of Wales had no more right (speaking of strict right) to assume the government, than any other individual subject of the country.
Page 118 - Nay, even from those who seem to have no direct object of office or profit, what is the language which their actions speak ? The throne is in danger ! we will support the throne ; but let us share the smiles of royalty — the order of nobility is in danger ! I will fight for nobility, says the viscount, but my zeal would be much greater if I were made an earl.
Page 166 - O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English Fairies never trod ! Yet who in Indian bower has stood, But thought on England's
Page 24 - No government ever dismayed him : the world could not bribe him : he thought only of Ireland ; lived for no other object ; dedicated to her his beautiful fancy, his elegant wit, his manly courage, and all the splendour of his astonishing eloquence.
Page 117 - Can it be, that people of high rank, and professing high principles, that they or their families should seek to thrive on the spoils of misery, and fatten on the meals wrested from industrious poverty...