Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III.C. Knight, 1839 |
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Página 26 - urbe polleat multorum obedire tempori, multorumque vel honori, vel periculo servire. His enim rebus, infimo loco natus, et honores, et pecuniam, et gratiam consecutus, etiam in patronorum sine doctrina, sine ingenio, aliquem numerum pervenerat." (Cic. Brutus.') The power of deciding causes, which he showed when raised to the bench, was favourably con* Equity,
Página 322 - se quisque attolere ac levare vellet, diu nequiret, quia torpentibus rigore nervis, vix flectere artus poterant.'f The hopes of Napoleon were blighted; the retreat of his armament was cut off; and his doom sealed far more irreversibly than if the
Página 162 - and insincere; when, in truth, it only arose from a good-natured desire of giving as little needless uneasiness as possible, and raising as few difficulties as he could upon matters foreign to his main purpose. When he went to the Tagus at the head of the expedition and the commission in
Página 312 - school might envy its poetical effect, and might perhaps learn how possible it is to be pointed and epigrammatic without being affected, and sentimental without being mawkish. '' Le bûcheron Americain ne s'interesse à rien ; toute idée sensible est loin de lui ; ces branches si
Página 27 - oyer ,• and a great and candid critic (Sir S. Romilly) professed himself, to Lord Eldon's extreme delight, better pleased with the tardy justice of the principal than with the swift injustice of the deputy. The ridicule which he threw around his conduct in society, by his childish devotion to the
Página 32 - eye,—lechers of either sex, who would fain have gloated over the realities of what their liquorish imagination alone bodied forth,—pimps of hideous aspect, whose prurient glance could penetrate through the keyhole of rooms where the rat shared with the bug the silence of the deserted place—these were the performers whose exploits the
Página 60 - Council board, more quickly made up his mind, or more gallantly performed his part. Be the act mild or harsh, moderate or violent, sanctioned by the law and constitution, or an open outrage upon both, he was heard indeed to wail and groan much of piteous necessity—often vowed to
Página 192 - impulse, and he had the art so to draw you into a participation, that, though you felt an inferiority, it was quite a contented one. Indeed nothing could exceed the urbanity of
Página 176 - paper, and to restore the standard ; and the only argument for delay was the necessity of continuing the war expenditure—one of the most urgent reasons, certainly, for instantly applying a remedy to the enormous evil. At length the government of Lord Liverpool, under the influence of Mr. Peel, who was one of its most
Página 134 - is always at his desk," the common amount of civic panegyric to a virtuous apprentice, was in terms, no doubt, often applied to Mr. Robert Jenkinson. " Here comes a worthy minister, whose days and nights have been passed in his office, and not in idle talking," might be the slight transformation by which