The Life and Times of Charles James Fox, Band 3R. Bentley, 1866 - 1 Seiten |
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66 Correspondence Addington admire Æneid Amiens Anne's Hill appears Ariosto army Austria beautiful believe Bonaparte Burke Cabinet Catholic cause certainly Chancellor character conduct considered Consul danger declared delight doubt Duke of Portland Emperor England English Europe favour feel Fox's Speeches France French friends give Government Greek Grey happy heard Homer honourable hope House of Commons Ibid Ireland Jacobin King letter liberty Lord Auckland Lord Chatham Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Grenville Lord Holland Lord Malmesbury Lord Spencer means measure Memoirs ment military mind Ministers Ministry Napoleon nation negotiation never object occasion opinion Paris Parliament Parliamentary passage peace peace of Amiens perhaps Pitt Pitt's poets political principles Prussia question Republic seems Spain speaking spirit statesman suppose sure thought tion treaty Treaty of Amiens Virgil Whig party whole Windham wish writes
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Seite 59 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Seite 199 - Put yourselves — oh! that you would put yourselves in the field of battle, and learn to judge of the sort of horrors that you excite! In former wars a man might, at least, have some feeling, some interest, that served to balance in his mind the impressions which a scene of carnage and of death must inflict. If a man had been present at the Battle of Blenheim, for instance, and had inquired the motive of the battle, there was not a soldier engaged who could not have satisfied his curiosity, and...
Seite 101 - Plurimum audaciae ad pericula capessenda, plurimum consilii inter ipsa pericula erat. Nullo labore aut corpus fatigari aut animus vinci poterat. Caloris ac frigoris patientia par ; cibi potionisque desiderio 10 natural!, non voluptate modus finitus ; vigiliarum somnique nee die nee nocte discriminata tempora; id quod gerendis rebus superesset quieti datum; ea neque molli strato neque silentio accersita ; multi saepe militari sagulo opertum humi iacentem inter custodias stationesque militum conspexerunt.
Seite 237 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of frost; He comes...
Seite 199 - But if a man were present now at a field of slaughter, and were to inquire for what they were fighting - 'Fighting!' would be the answer; 'they are not fighting, they are pausing.' 'Why is that man expiring? Why is that other writhing with agony? What means this implacable fury?' The answer must be, 'You are quite wrong, sir; you deceive yourself - they are not fighting - do not disturb them - they are merely pausing! — this man is not expiring with agony - that man is not dead — he is only pausing!...
Seite 259 - Join all, and try the omnipotence of Jove : Let down our golden everlasting chain, Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main: Strive all, of mortal, and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth. Ye strive in vain! If I but stretch this hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus
Seite 387 - Italians. He disliked political conversation, and never willingly took any part in it. " To speak of him justly as an orator, would require a long essay. Every where natural, he carried into public something of that simple and negligent exterior which belonged to him in private. When he began to speak, a common observer might have thought him awkward ; and even a consummate judge could only have been struck with...
Seite 199 - And is this the way, sir, that you are to show yourselves the advocates of order? You take up a system calculated to uncivilize the world — to destroy order — to trample on religion — to stifle in the heart, not merely the generosity of noble sentiment, but the affections of social nature; and in the prosecution of this system you spread terror and devastation all around you.
Seite 195 - These sentiments cannot be foreign to the heart of your majesty, who reigns over a free nation, and with the sole view of rendering it happy. " Your majesty will only see in this overture my sincere desire to contribute efficaciously, for the second time, to a general pacification, by a step speedy, entirely of confidence, and disengaged from those forms which, necessary perhaps to disguise the dependence of weak states, prove only, in those which are strong, the mutual desire of deceiving each other.
Seite 164 - Eneas) is, of course, not so much felt in the three first books ; but, afterwards, he is always either insipid or odious, sometimes excites interest against him, and never for him.