 At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring...  Notes and Queries - Página 1061882Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - 892 páginas
...and talents. At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air at the root of an old tree at Holwood just above the steep descent into...occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." In the spring of 1787, Mr. Clarkson, who had published a Prize Essay upon the... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - 1838 - 448 páginas
...and talents. At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air at the root of an old tree at Holwood just above the steep descent into...occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." In the spring of 1787, Mr. Clarkson, who had published a Prize Essay upon the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 páginas
...length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air at the root of an old tree at Pitt's, at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the...occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." ' — • vol. i. pp. 150, 151. He did so; but over-exertion in preparing his... | |
 | 1838 - 596 páginas
...length, I well rememberafter a conversation in the op'en air at the root of an old tree at Holvrood, jatt above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I...in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.'" The little allusions to scenery afford a key to Mr. Wilberforce's happiest tastes.... | |
 | 1838 - 588 páginas
...the open air at the oot of an old tree at Pitt's, at Holwood, jnst above the steep descent into be vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice on a fit occasion in the louse of Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." '— ol. i. pp. 150, 151. ie did so;... | |
 | 1840 - 504 páginas
...air, at the root of an old tree at Hoi wood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Kcston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons of ray intention to bring the subject forward." The avowal of his intention was delayed for prudential... | |
 | 1907 - 524 páginas
...At length I well remember after a conversation with Mr. Pitt in the open air at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into...to bring forward the abolition of the slave trade." These words are engraved on a stone chair which Earl Stanhope had set up close to this historic tree... | |
 | Sir James Stephen - 1843 - 418 páginas
...old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the valley of Keston," that Mr. Wilberforce resolved "to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of his intention to bring the subject forward." The experience of the next twenty years was, however,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - 350 páginas
...old tree at Hoi wood, just above the steep descent into the valley of Keston," that Mr. Wilberforce resolved " to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of his intention to bring the subject forward." The experience of the next twenty years was, however,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - 362 páginas
...old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the valley of Keston," that Mr. Wilberforce resolved " to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of his intention to bring the subject forward." The experience of the next twenty years was, however,... | |
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