The Life and Political Writings of J. W.

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Strana 411 - I should never resolve him that question, till he made out the right of putting it, and that if I could have entertained any other idea, I was too well bred to have given his lordship and colonel Berkeley the trouble of coming to Bagshot.
Strana 414 - His lordship paid me the highest encomiums on my courage, and said he would declare every where that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired, that we might now be good friends, and retire to the inn to drink a bottle of claret together, which we did with great good humour and much laugh [ter].
Strana 208 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country}.
Strana 410 - I came here at three this afternoon, and about -five I was told, that Lord Talbot and Colonel Berkeley were in the houfe. Lord Talbot had been "here at one, and was gone again, leaving a meffage, however, that he would foon return. I had continued in the room where I was at my firft coming, for fear of raifing any fufpicion.
Strana 412 - I was a wretch, who fought his life. I reminded him, that I came there on a point of honour, to give his...
Strana 411 - I had insulted him, that he was not used to be injured or insulted; what did I mean? Did I, or did I not, write the North Briton of August I, which had affronted his honour?
Strana 204 - I hope too that he is become a friend to this constitution and the family on the throne, now he is thus nobly provided for: but I know he has much to unwrite, more to unsay, before he will be forgiven by the true friends of the present illustrious family, for what he has been writing and saying for many years.
Strana 226 - I- am perswaded, that if God and his angels, at the last day, should come down in their whitest garments, they would run away, and cry, The children of the chappel are come again to torment us, let us fly from the abomination of these boys, and hide ourselves in the mountains.
Strana 282 - Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar...
Strana 412 - I did not mean to quit him, but would absolutely first settle some important business relative to the education of an only daughter, whom I tenderly loved, that it would take up...

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