A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847, المجلد 4Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1858 |
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الصفحة 295 - Replying in the negative, he continued, " When we proceeded to the signatures, the King of Hanover was very anxious to sign before Prince Albert ; and when the Queen approached the table, he placed himself by her side, watching his opportunity. She knew very well what he was about, and just as the Archbishop was giving her the pen, she suddenly dodged round the table, placed herself next to the Prince, then quickly took the pen from the Archbishop, signed, and gave it to Prince Albert, who also signed...
الصفحة 290 - I found him in bed, dressed in a dirty silk jacket and a turban night-cap, one as greasy as the other ; for, notwithstanding his coquetry about dress in public, he was extremely slovenly and dirty in private. The first words he said to me were, ' Arthur, the Cabinet is defunct...
الصفحة 85 - The following lines were written by Lord Holland on the morning of the day when his last illness commenced, and were found after his death on his dressing-room table : — " Nephew of Fox and friend of Grey, Sufficient for my fame; If those who knew me best shall say I tarnished neither name.
الصفحة 304 - ... slowly turned his head to the quarter whence the voice came, without moving his body, and as slowly reverted to his former position, always with the same fixed, impassible countenance. The caps were then pulled down, the drop fell, and after some struggles they all ceased to live. The law prescribed that their heads should be severed from their bodies, and held up to public view as the heads of traitors. The executioner had neglected to bring any instrument for the purpose, and we in the sheriff's...
الصفحة 290 - Arthur, the Cabinet is defunct ;' and then he began to describe the manner in which the late Ministers had taken leave of him, on giving in their resignations.
الصفحة 341 - Some years ago it was proposed to him to purchase a farm in the neighbourhood of Strathfieldsaye, which lay contiguous to his estate, and was therefore a valuable acquisition, to which he assented. When the purchase was completed, his steward congratulated him upon having had such a bargain, as the seller was in difficulties, and forced to part with it.
الصفحة 288 - Villele in early life was a lieutenant in the French navy, and in that situation once received a curious lesson of English coolness. When Admiral Cornwallis was blockading Bangalore, the French frigate on board of which Villele served, wanted to introduce some supplies, which the Admiral would not permit, saying, that if they persisted in the attempt, he would fire upon them. The French lieutenant, thinking he would not put his threats in execution, made for the port, when Cornwallis immediately...
الصفحة 132 - My authorities in Poetry are Maro, Horace, Naso, Juvenal, Statius, Martial, Claudian, Persius, Lucan, Tibullus and Propertius ; in prose, Tully, Quintilian, Sallust, Terence. Then, for the observation of elegances, there is no one in whom I have so much confidence as Laurentius Valla, who is unrivalled both in the sharpness of his intelligence and the tenacity of his memory.
الصفحة 350 - But where the nation has been merely enkindled for a while by a great man's spirit, the light passes away with him who communicated it ; and the nation, when he is gone, is like a dead body to which magic power had for a moment given an unnatural life ; when the charm has ceased, the body is cold and stiff as before.
الصفحة 71 - ... asks for is refused him ; the chancellor and the grand referendary visit him, and the people about him converse with him, and are attentive to his wishes. This is called the process of kindness ; and if it fails to work upon the culprit, and produces no discovery of his plot or accomplices, recourse is then had to the process of reduction. He receives little or no nutriment, is frequently bled, never allowed to go to sleep, and his strength thus sapped away by inches ; if in this exhausted state...