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Página 490 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from, heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
Página 241 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Página 485 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Página 493 - I must confess I did not expect to hear my new acquaintance value himself upon these qualifications, but finding him such a critic upon foreigners, I asked him if he had ever travelled ; he told me, he did not know what travelling was good for, but to teach a man to ride the great horse, to jabber French, and to talk against passive obedience : to which he added, that he scarce ever knew a traveller in his life who had not forsook his principles, and lost his hunting-seat.
Página 315 - Am I a free-man in England, and do I become a slave in six hours by crossing the channel?
Página 293 - A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Página 339 - But he was far from governing by corruption : he governed by party attachments. The charge of systematic corruption is less applicable to him, perhaps, than to any minister who ever served the crown for so great a length of time.
Página 258 - ... nothing in him that looked like spirit. He never appeared with cheerfulness and vigour to animate us. Our men began to despise him ; some asked if he could speak. His countenance looked extremely heavy. He cared not to come abroad amongst us soldiers, or to see us handle our arms or do our exercise.
Página 483 - which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — 'Oh,' said Bentley, 'ay, now I recollect — your translation: — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer?
Página 368 - My Lord Bath, you and I are now two as insignificant men as any in England.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The History of England from the Accession of Anne to the Death of George II. (1702-1760) Volumen9 de Political history of England Volumen9 de The History of England from the Accession of Anne to the Death of George II, Isaac Saunders Leadam The political history of England, ed. by William Hunt and Reginald L. Poole, 9 |
| Autor | Isaac Saunders Leadam |
| Editor | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1909 |
| Largo | 557 páginas |
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