Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1836 |
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... influenced him in choosing his station - a respect for consistency for- bade him to abandon it : -the one rendered him daring and successful in his rise -- the other pre- served him dignified after his fall . Yet the Tories , in whose ...
... influenced him in choosing his station - a respect for consistency for- bade him to abandon it : -the one rendered him daring and successful in his rise -- the other pre- served him dignified after his fall . Yet the Tories , in whose ...
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... dreaded his talents , and felt the force of his influence . They knew the value of his assistance , and the confusion which must follow his defection ; I. A.D. 1716 . CHAP . and , personally interested LORD BOLINGBROKE . 9.
... dreaded his talents , and felt the force of his influence . They knew the value of his assistance , and the confusion which must follow his defection ; I. A.D. 1716 . CHAP . and , personally interested LORD BOLINGBROKE . 9.
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... influence would henceforward be directed to the establishment of public tranquillity , and the prevention of every design which might be formed by the enemies of his country or her institu- tions . He repeated , that if he remained in ...
... influence would henceforward be directed to the establishment of public tranquillity , and the prevention of every design which might be formed by the enemies of his country or her institu- tions . He repeated , that if he remained in ...
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... influence he once enjoyed . The rank which the act of attainder had taken from him was bestowed upon his father , who lived to a very great age . The empty title of Viscount was still retained by the son , who had earned it in its more ...
... influence he once enjoyed . The rank which the act of attainder had taken from him was bestowed upon his father , who lived to a very great age . The empty title of Viscount was still retained by the son , who had earned it in its more ...
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... influence in behalf of his old coadjutors , represented , that if the commons could make good the two articles of high treason , the earl would forfeit both life and estate , and there would be an end of the matter : that to proceed in ...
... influence in behalf of his old coadjutors , represented , that if the commons could make good the two articles of high treason , the earl would forfeit both life and estate , and there would be an end of the matter : that to proceed in ...
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Page 101 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us ( since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 73 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Page 74 - Now his lordship is run after his cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a painter for 200£ to paint his country-hall with trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c. and other ornaments, merely to countenance his calling this place a farm...
Page 275 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more ! Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight, The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right ! IX.
Page 200 - ... employed, and must have had a thorough knowledge of his own state, and of the other states of Greece, of their dispositions, and of their interests relatively to one another, and relatively to their neighbours, to the Persians particularly, with whom he held a correspondence, not much to his honour...
Page 350 - ... no peace could be safe or honourable to Great Britain or Europe, if Spain and the West Indies should be allotted to any branch of the house of Bourbon.
Page 101 - A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield; The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 101 - Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ! 10 The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar...
Page 168 - But there have been lawyers that were orators, philosophers, historians: there have been Bacons and Clarendons. There will be none such any more, till in some better age true ambition, or the love of fame, prevails over avarice; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...
Page 159 - ... all his might and all his art, to destroy the fountain from whence that mercy flowed. In that country, suppose him continually contracting friendships and familiarities with the ambassadors of those Princes who, at the time, happen to be most at enmity with his own ; and if, at any time, it should happen to be for the interest of any of those foreign ministers to have a secret...