History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Količina 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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affairs afterwards Aislabie answer appears Appendix Atterbury became Bill Bishop Bishop Atterbury Bishop of Rochester Bolingbroke Bourbon Brodrick to Lord Chesterfield Court Coxe's Walpole death declared defence Dubois Duchess of Kendal Duke of Newcastle Earl Emperor England English favour Fleury France French friends George Gibraltar Government Hanover Hist honour hopes Horace Walpole House of Commons Jacobites James Joseph Jekyll King King's less letter Lockhart Lord Midleton Lord Townshend Madame de Prie Madrid Majesty measures Memoirs ment Minister nation negotiations never object obtained occasion opposition Ostend Company Paris Parliament party passed persons Pope Pretender Prince proposed Pulteney Queen received resentment restoration Ripperda Royal says scarcely Scotland Secretary seems sent Sir Robert Sir William Wyndham South Sea Company South Sea Directors South Sea Scheme Spain Spanish Speech spirit Stanhope Stuart Sunderland Swift talents thought tion Tories treaty treaty of Hanover Vienna Walpole's Wharton Whigs writes Wyndham
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Stran 214 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Stran 160 - EXCISE [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise is paid ']. 1 The Commissioners of Excise being offended by this severe reflection,!
Stran 64 - ... without suffering me to see them before he was paid, or giving me good security to restore my money for those that were lean, or shorn, or scabby, I would be none of his customer. I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he showed as a pattern to encourage purchasers: and this is directly the case in point with Mr. Wood's assay.
Stran 145 - If all be true that I do think. There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine — a friend — or being dry — Or lest we should be, by and by — Or any other reason why!
Stran 228 - ... Gulliver is in everybody's hands. Lord Scarborough, who is no inventor of stories, told me, that he fell in company with a master of a ship, who told him, that he was very well acquainted with Gulliver; but that the printer had mistaken ; that he lived in Wapping, and not in Rotherhithe. I lent the book to an old gentleman, who went immediately to his map to search for Lilliput.
Stran 221 - There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."— Spence's Anecdotes.
Stran 168 - Excise ; though, in my private opinion, I still think it was a scheme that would have tended very much to the interest of the nation.
Stran 37 - Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe : and if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
Stran 228 - ... neither from the left to the right like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left like the Arabians, nor from up to down like the Chinese, nor from down to up like the Cascagians, but aslant from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England.
Stran 254 - Immediately my weariness and headache ceased, and my horse's lameness in the same instant. Nor did he halt any more either that day or the next.