A Dissertation Upon Parties: in Several Letters to Caleb D'Anvers ...: To which is Prefixed, the Life of the AuthorT. Cadell, 1786 - Počet stran: 316 |
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Strana 255 - And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Strana 73 - Here lies HENRY ST. JOHN, : In the Reign of Queen Anne Secretary of War, Secretary of State, and Viscount Bolingbroke: In the Days of King George I. and King George II. Something more and better.
Strana 33 - He talked to me," says his lordship, " like a man who expected every moment to set out for England or Scotland, but who did not very well know for which...
Strana 66 - I know, says he, in one of these, how little regard you pay to writings of this kind : but I imagine, that if you can like any...
Strana 130 - ... which pharisees of the black gown and the long robe are always at hand to report and interpret as a prince desires, be once added, like a supplemental code, to the known laws of the land: then, I...
Strana 20 - ... its old good manners, its old good humour, and its old good nature...
Strana 22 - Such was the miserable situation to which he was reduced upon this occasion ! of all the number of his former flatterers and dependants, scarcely was one found remaining. Every hour brought fresh reports of his alarming situation and the dangers which threatened him and his party on all sides. Prior, who had been...
Strana 27 - Gualtier, who was -an emissary of France. Fifthly, that he disclosed to the French the manner how Tournay in Flanders might be gained by them. And lastly, that he advised and promoted the yielding up Spain and the West Indies to the Duke of Anjou, then an enemy to her majesty.
Strana 50 - ... with me, joined to that of having once openly declared for him, would have created a point of...