Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ... Ed. with Introduction, Notes and Index by F. C. Montague, المجلد 2Methuen & Company, 1903 |
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... He soon saw and regretted his error , and in 1746 joined Carteret in an attempt to form a ministry . Their failure closed Pulteney's political career . Pulteney was not invited to take office . An angry WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM 9.
... He soon saw and regretted his error , and in 1746 joined Carteret in an attempt to form a ministry . Their failure closed Pulteney's political career . Pulteney was not invited to take office . An angry WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM 9.
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... politics . He could not , he said , trust his temper . He feared that the recollection of his private wrongs might ... political life . In 1751 he brought in the famous bill for the reformation of the calendar . 2 These persons were ...
... politics . He could not , he said , trust his temper . He feared that the recollection of his private wrongs might ... political life . In 1751 he brought in the famous bill for the reformation of the calendar . 2 These persons were ...
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... political morality was at variance with the political conditions of the time . We need not therefore wonder that Walpole's colleagues should wish to take their own way or that Walpole should insist on getting rid of them . A modern ...
... political morality was at variance with the political conditions of the time . We need not therefore wonder that Walpole's colleagues should wish to take their own way or that Walpole should insist on getting rid of them . A modern ...
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... political researches had led them to fear , like Squire Western , that their land might be sent over to Hanover to be put in the sinking- fund . The eloquence of these zealous squires , the remnant of the once formidable October Club ...
... political researches had led them to fear , like Squire Western , that their land might be sent over to Hanover to be put in the sinking- fund . The eloquence of these zealous squires , the remnant of the once formidable October Club ...
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... politicians , who had considered themselves as placed under sentence of perpetual exclusion from office , and who , in their despair , had been almost ready to join in a counter - revolution as the only mode of removing the proscription ...
... politicians , who had considered themselves as placed under sentence of perpetual exclusion from office , and who , in their despair , had been almost ready to join in a counter - revolution as the only mode of removing the proscription ...
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الصفحة 236 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
الصفحة 236 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
الصفحة 123 - These friendships are exposed to no danger from the occurrences by which other attachments are weakened or dissolved. Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces,...
الصفحة 472 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
الصفحة 428 - The battle commenced with a cannonade in which the artillery of the Nabob did scarcely any execution, while the few field-pieces of the English produced great effect. Several of the most distinguished officers in Surajah Dowlah's service fell. Disorder began to spread through his ranks. His own terror increased every moment. One of the conspirators urged on him the expediency of retreating. The insidious advice, agreeing as it did with what his own terror suggested, was readily received.
الصفحة 420 - Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
الصفحة 473 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
الصفحة 402 - Aurungzebe that this wild clan of plunderers first descended from their mountains ; and soon after his death, every corner of his wide empire learned to tremble at the mighty name of the Mahrattas. Many fertile viceroyalties were entirely subdued by them. Their dominions stretched across the peninsula from sea to sea. Mahratta captains reigned at Poonah, at Gualior, in Guzerat, in Berar, and in Tanjore.
الصفحة 419 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.
الصفحة 421 - But these things, which, after the lapse of more than eighty years, cannot be told or read without horror, awakened neither remorse nor pity in the bosom of the savage Nabob. He inflicted no punishment on the murderers. He showed no tenderness to the survivors.