 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1898 - 468 páginas
...discrediting them. " I am resolved," he said, "to be in earnest for the public, and shall be a scare-crow of violence to the gentle warblers of the grove, the moderate Whigs and temperate statesmen." That was not the tone which Charles Fox, as fierce a fighter as Chatham himself had been in his most... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond - 1903 - 452 páginas
...song among the body. For myself I am resolved to be in earnest for the public and shall be a scarecrow of violence to the gentle warblers of the grove, the moderate Whigs, and temperate statesmen." courage to assail a Government, and rebuke a people, but he had never learnt to observe or to enforce... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1905 - 262 páginas
...when he wrote that " he was resolved to be in earnest for the public, and should be a scarecrow <.f violence to the gentle warblers of the grove, the moderate Whigs and temperate statesmen." Rockingham and his friends were honest and honourable men — so were they all, all honourable men... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1907 - 756 páginas
...burden of their song ! " As for him, he must " swim in agitated waters " ; he would be " a scarecrow of violence to the gentle warblers of the grove, the moderate Whigs and temperate statesmen." 260 While the disappointed Whigs now quarrelled amongst themselves, the King and North went boldly... | |
 | Denys Arthur Winstanley - 1912 - 484 páginas
...among the body. For myself, I am resolved to be in earnest for the public, and shall be a scarecrow of violence to the gentle warblers of the grove, the moderate whigs and temperate statesmen." 2 Such was not the utterance of a man who was prepared to submit to dictat1on ; and warm though he... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1913 - 450 páginas
...among the body. For myself I am resolved to be in earnest for the public, and shall be a scarecrow of violence to the gentle warblers of the grove, the moderate Whigs and timid statesmen. The difference between Chatham and the Whigs on the cause and cure of the State's... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1927 - 600 páginas
...Winstanley, Lord Chatham and the Whig Opposition, p. 341. other hand, was resolved to be ' a scarecrow of violence to the gentle warblers of the grove, the moderate Whigs. . . .' 1 In the summer he was full of enthusiasm for the project of a grand remonstrance to be presented... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1966 - 440 páginas
...among the body. For myself I am resolved to be in earnest for the public, and shall be a scarecrow of violence to the gentle warblers of the grove, the moderate Whigs and timid statesmen. The difference between Chatham and the Whigs on the cause and cure of the State's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 páginas
...among the body. For myself, I am resolved to be in earnest for the public, and shall be a scarecrow of violence to the gentle warblers of the grove, the...we may at least say, that, had he done his duty by the king and his colleagues, they would never Lave arisen to the lamentable urgency and importance... | |
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Marquis is an honest and honourable man, but that "moderation, moderation !" is the burthen of the song among the body. For myself, I am resolved to be in earnest for the public, and shall be a scarecrow of violence to the gentle warblers of the grove,... 
