Historical Memoirs of His Own Time, Band 4R. Bentley, 1836 |
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Seite 636 - From the Instant that Pitt entered the Door-way of the House of Commons, he advanced up the Floor with a quick and firm Step, his Head erect and thrown back, looking neither to the right nor to the left; nor favouring with a Nod or a Glance, any of the Individuals seated on either Side, among whom, many who possessed five Thousand Pounds a Year, would have been gratified even by so slight a Mark of Attention.
Seite 810 - October llth, 1715, he was rewarded for his active zeal by being appointed First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the Cabinet led ostensibly by his brother-in-law and early friend, Viscount Townshend.
Seite 430 - THIS BOOK. FORMS PART OF THE ORIGINAL LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BOUGHT IN EUROPE 1838 TO 1839 BY ASA CRAY a, >^ ^f-, LITERARY REMAINS OF TUB LATE WILLIAM HAZLITT.
Seite 440 - Politeness, though somewhat formal, was nevertheless natural and 2F captivating. Perhaps, at least so his Enemies asserted, his military Talents were not equally brilliant with his personal Accomplishments ; but he had not risen the more slowly on that account, to the Honors, or to the Eminences, of his Profession.
Seite 671 - I secured above one hundred and twenty votes on that most important question to ministers. Eighty thousand pounds were set apart for the purpose. Forty members of the House of Commons received from me a thousand pounds each. To eighty others I paid five hundred pounds apiece.
Seite 593 - The king will in fact take the diadem from his own head, and place it on the head of Mr. Fox.
Seite 667 - told me that it cost him twelve thousand pounds in corruption, particularly among the Tories, to carry the Westminster and Chippenham elections in 1742, and other points, which compelled Lord Orford, at that time Sir Robert Walpole, to quit the House of Commons.
Seite 587 - Though possessing little local or accurate information on the immediate subject of debate, he spoke with great ability and good sense ; but the slow, measured, and sententious style of enunciation which characterized his eloquence, however calculated to excite admiration it might be in the senate of the sister kingdom, appeared to English ears cold, stiff, and deficient in some of the best recommendations to attention.
Seite 640 - Being elevated above their usual prudence, and having no servant near them, they passed through the gate at a brisk pace, without stopping to pay the toll ; regardless of the remonstrances or threats of the turnpike man, who running after them, and believing them to belong to some highwaymen, who had recently committed depredations on that road, discharged the contents of his blunderbuss at their backs. Happily he did no injury.
Seite 672 - Mackay afterwards confirmed more than once, this fact, to the gentleman above mentioned, who related it to me. He added, that lord Besborough appeared, himself, so sensible of the imprudence, as well as impropriety of the avowal made by Mackay, at his table ; that his lordship...